@TheRideshareGuy@robotaxi No, it is not their trademark! They filed for it. But because it is generic they were refused by the PTO. They are trying to pretend that didn't happen.
@FutureBuckNasty Chris urmson, who ran waymo and now runs Aurora and Elon musk are both Canadian citizens and waabi is based in Toronto. So there's hope for Canada.
13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on. (3 companies are waiting on regulators to deploy right now.) It wasn't just a joke, though, it was based on my real predictions of the time, so as we approach the date I predicted, I've made a video to review just how predictions about self-driving by all sorts of people (especially including Elon Musk) have been right and wrong over the years, and why.
Why did so many get it so wrong? How did I get it almost dead on? Enjoy the video, or a text version which is up on the Forbes site.
https://t.co/3IU4mcM5W2
@FudKim While I do own Tesla FSD, you can't judge the quality of a robotaxi by taking a ride in it yourself. You can't judge it from 1,000 perfect rides! That's not how robotaxi evaluation works.