> For technical and legal reasons, self-driving, on-demand vehicle services will be at least a decade out.
At least the legal reasons are now moot at least in Germany, as all the laws required for self-driving cars have already been passed.
All the harbors and airports have been using fully automated vehicles for transport on their area for quite a while now, and the recent showcase where autonomous trucks from all european car manufacturers drove to the netherlands has shown reliability on streets as well.
At least in the transport market autonomous cars are less than half a decade out.
So manufacturers already know under what conditions/standard they can put an unassisted self-driving car on the public roads, and it's the same as (or analogous to) the rule for automated port tools? What is that standard?
I don’t know myself, I’d have to look in the laws, but the rules were written because Mercedes and VW have now a decade of unassisted self-driving experience and plan to release the first fully self-driving vehicles for transport (trucks, etc) within of the next year.
At least the legal reasons are now moot at least in Germany, as all the laws required for self-driving cars have already been passed.
All the harbors and airports have been using fully automated vehicles for transport on their area for quite a while now, and the recent showcase where autonomous trucks from all european car manufacturers drove to the netherlands has shown reliability on streets as well.
At least in the transport market autonomous cars are less than half a decade out.