Brad Templeton
Software architect and writer who has been publishing about robocars since before they existed, an early consultant to Google's self-driving car team and later a Forbes columnist on the subject. He has made dated public predictions about when robotaxis would arrive and has gone back to score them.
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Their wordsSeveral companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
↗Robotaxi Companies Need To Stop It With The Right Seat Safety Driversideas.4brad.com
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Their wordsMore data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
↗Waymo Releases Apples-To-Apples Incident Data, It Speaks To Regulationideas.4brad.com
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their words13 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.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsSelf-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
↗Urbanists Hate Cars. Should They Hate Electric Robotaxis?ideas.4brad.com
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThat's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
↗Musk: Robotaxis In Austin Need Intervention Every 10,000 Milesideas.4brad.com