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George Jetson Would Be Disappointed with Autonomous Vehicles

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George Jetson Would Be Disappointed with Autonomous Vehicles

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it doesn’t look like we’re all going to have personal Waymos anytime soon. There are four major hurdles.

The subsidies that have made a lot of the progress on autonomous vehicles possible are being phased out, so all that infrastructure that is needed won’t be made. Lithium is the backbone of EV’s, but most of the processing is in China; the US would need to build local capacity for this to work. Tesla, the leader of US EV innovation, hasn’t released a new model in years. And of course, the chip shortages that are coming soon will restrict growth.

So, mass adoption for electric and self-driving cars isn’t happening. There are niches where this technology will likely do well…think convoy trucking.
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