rapidly-cooling enthusiasm for self-driving cars
People love their cars, and to drive them too.
Ken
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 5:16 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, roxanna Mason wrote:
Reminds me of the Obama Solyndra fiasco, billions of tax dollars pumped
into a solar panel venture only to go bust.
About half a billion in government loan guarantees, actually. But yes,
having the government pick winners and losers is seldom a good thing.
When the technology is ripe the market will respond accordingly.
Sometimes. And sometimes even when it's not ripe, as witness the
rapidly-cooling enthusiasm for self-driving cars.
Most of the current hype about electric aircraft is privately funded, and
it could well be headed the same way.
Henry
