Comment by thrwyoilarticle
3 years ago
It's odd that it's treated as a matter of pride that, while other cities have AVs today, your own city or nation will take much longer simply because it's full of dangerous drivers breaking the law and infrastructure full of literal roadblocks. It's like claiming that cars are infeasible globally because the roads around you are full of potholes and manure. Congratulations?
Rather than assume this is a death knell for self-driving cars, a more pragmatic view would be other nations will be able to benefit from them while you are left behind. Self-driving cars don't need global saturation to be worthwhile.
It looks like what he meant was if an AI system works well in India, then it has very high probability of working in the rest of the world.