As the United States enters an entirely new phase in robotics and technology, with the possibility of thousands of robots driving among them, what else will they become comfortable—or uncomfortable—with robots doing, and how will that change urban life?
With orders now in for more than 20,000 sporty, electric self-driving vehicles from Jaguar and thousands of minivans from Chrysler, Waymo estimates that the Jaguar fleet alone will be capable of doing a million trips each day in 2020.
“Given the opportunity, autonomous-car services will likely be willing to invest heavily in redeveloping urban infrastructure that would give them an economic advantage in serving the populations that live there,” Ian Bogost wrote. “Especially if it would mean a monopoly on local transit. The results could change city life entirely.”
Read the article at The Atlantic.
