What Rodney Brooks thinks about America
Robotics researcher, emeritus professor at MIT and former director of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, now at Robust.AI. Since January 2018 he has published dated predictions about self-driving cars, robotics and human spaceflight and scored them in public every New Year's Day, a commitment he made through 2050.
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2 dated positions, 2018 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Rodney Brooks has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldCars people own will double as driverless taxis when the owner is not using them, in ten major US cities, some time from the mid-2020s.
No longer holdsThis is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.
SaidI got suckered by his hype.
↗Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01rodneybrooks.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsSuch "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025