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UAV meaning Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle. (In contrast to rideshare services, like Uber. When they were heavily subsidized, it must be noted, they increased traffic congestion.) Availability of them will increase. The reason that we have an auto-dominated landscape today is that car makers wanted to sell more cars. There's approximately 0% chance that car makers today will be satisfied selling a limited number of vehicles for ride services, when they could sell vastly more cars to individuals.
UAV already stands for "unmanned aerial vehicle." Besides, using both "unmanned" and "autonomous" is redundant. Anyway, the standard abbreviation for autonomous vehicles is AV.
Buggy whip salesmen gonna have to deal with it.
I suppose a vehicle that is being driven by remote control is unmanned but not autonomous.
Sure, but an autonomous vehicle is by definition unmanned.
An autonomous vehicle doesn't (in theory) require a driver, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have one.
Show me where the driver goes in this:
https://zoox.com/
Well sure, that particular autonomous vehicle can't have a driver, but a Waymo Jaguar I-Pace could have a driver, and is also an autonomous car.
Well, it's a car with some fancy shit on it. Not sure if it can really be called an autonomous vehicle.