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> I had an epiphany about self driving recently late at night on the streets of San Francisco

So, the entire amount of VC dollars that went into Waymo is ~$5.5 billion dollars.

If you look at the entire self-driving market, it's probably less than $12 billion in total.

San Francisco's yearly budget, is $15 billion dollars. The Federal Gov spends 50 billion dollars per year on maintaining federal highways.

So yeah, you didn't have an epiphany. You just couldn't be bothered to spend 20 seconds thinking about the math.



5.5 billion gets you a bit over 2 miles of subway in nyc [1] these days, hardly the public transit revolution needed to make autonomous driving redundant

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...




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