autonomous vehicles
also referred to as: autonomous vehicle
8 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2022 by Dan Hockenmaier · across every show →
Everything said about autonomous vehicles, oldest first
Oct 9, 2022 bearish
Apr 9, 2023 neutral
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles must balance safety with assertiveness to make progress
“Hey, you can be very safe if you're not moving at all. That's not what we're building, right? We need to make sure that the riders get to their destination on time. So it has to be making, it has to be appropriately assertive and be making the right progress.”
Oct 6, 2024 bullish
Nickels: Autonomous driving will become super cheap within 10 to 20 years
“Well, autonomy is like the given. I think most people would probably agree with that. And you know, we'll probably solve it with just cameras and we'll need LIDAR cause humans don't have LIDAR and you know, the cost of vehicles and sensors will come down, remo…”
Oct 6, 2024 bullish
Nickels: Shared rides and micromobility will remain essential in an autonomous future
“So, so then that from, for me, it's like, well, from first principles, shared rides is, is going to continue to be an important part of the future transportation and other modalities where, yeah, back to the three mile thing. It's like, well, it probably will …”
Oct 9, 2025 neutral
Mar 8, 2026 bullish
Younis: Autonomy will be standard and near-free within seven years
“It will not be a long time. You're already seeing this happen in China where the downward pricing pressure for that autonomous product for the lack of better word will become close to free. So now you fast forward five to seven years and every car Has some lev…”
Mar 8, 2026 bullish
Younis: Earliest robotics will upgrade existing hardware like cars and mining vehicles
“I think like the most obvious use cases that will come early are going to be use cases where you get the most amount of bang for buck. And the bang for buck is a car that drives itself or a mining robot, which is a mining vehicle, which is now intelligent. And…”
May 17, 2026 negative
Kalinowski: Home robots face tougher consumer adoption than autonomous vehicles
“There's a big difference between a car that is safer, that drives itself versus a car that a human drives, because you have an existence proof of the human driving car and you have the data. When you talk about homes, what is the delta? You have now a thing th…”