Full self-driving cars within 3 years? Expert says yes ...

<p><strong>We’re talking about autonomous driving ... specifically … how soon we can expect self-driving cars? And what changes will they bring in our economy and our society?</strong></p> <p><strong>My guest is Blair Lacorte, the president of AEye, a Silicon Valley company that “develops advanced vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles.”</strong></p> <p><strong>He says: we’ll have self-driving cars within 3 years.</strong></p> <p><strong>What we cover:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Many experts say that full self-driving is many years away. Some say we’ll never get there. Talk about how you think we’ll get there in 3 years.<br> </li> <li>You also say we’ll need to redefine what self-driving means … maybe redo the Levels of Automation. How so?<br> </li> <li>What’s unique about your technology? You have something you’ve call iDAR … what is it, and how does it work?<br> </li> <li>Who are you working with right now on this?<br> </li> <li>Elon Musk says we don’t need LIDAR. Agree?<br> </li> <li>How important is critical mass of instrumented cars and shared data to accelerate the AI that we need for self-driving cars?<br> </li> <li>Robotaxis … will we see fleets of personal cars roaming the roads as taxis? Other models?<br> </li> <li>There are those who say that autonomous cars -- and their development -- is unsafe. How do you respond?<br> </li> <li>Anything else?<br> </li> </ul>