Does autonomous driving have a future for cars for sale (as opposed to car sharing)?

Waymo already has Level 4, but they do not sell vehicles, but operate car sharing fleets. Therefore, they do not need a certificate for selling cars individually. The basic question: how big is the market for autonomous cars for individuals, vs fleets?

I suspect that in a few years, the lion's share of autonomous cars will be operated as fleets, which will then be operated, as Waymo does, for use in a specific region under specific conditions (e.g., weather). Commercially (and technically), that makes a lot more sense than selling the cars to private individuals or as company cars, where that control is difficult.

Certainly it is good PR to advertise being "first" at something. Practically, there are probably few people who would pay a significant premium to chug along at 60 km/h (40 mph) on the highway.

But if Mercedes is smart, they'll milk this for PR and keep working on autonomous fleets. But since Mercedes sold their German carsharing service ShareNow last year, I doubt it. The next few years will tell.

Actually, on the page you linked, they advertise a six year warranty:

> The Philips EnduraLED meets or exceeds these specifications with 806 lumens, 2700K, a CRI of 80 and a 6 year warranty.

The article doesn't mention it, but I would assume that the silkworms would be part of a closed food cycle, powered by light:

Sun -> Plants grow -> Silkworms eat plants -> Humans eat worms -> Excrement fertilizes soil -> Plants grow...

In Japan, QR Codes are not only used to download data (i.e. a link to a web page), but also to upload data. I.e. after playing a video game in an arcade, a QR Code is shown on the screen. Take a picture of it, and your high score will be uploaded to the game provider's server (to have a global high-score table for that game). That's not possible with MS tags, as they are just pointers, never carrying additional information.