Historical Examples
Historical Examples of Network-Scale Innovation
The same way the personal computer changed how we communicate and our personal productivity, AVs can transform how we move.
By examining the network-scale experiences of other catalyzing technologies, particularly the Interstate Highway System and the internet, there are three key points we can apply to future predictions on AVs:
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The benefits can be significantly underestimated
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We cannot fully anticipate the breadth of the impact
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Barriers to adoption will erode over time
Overall, the lesson of the past is that while some of the costs and downsides of a new technology may be more visible in its early stages, the full scale of its positive impacts rarely are.
