On Making an impossibly accurate prediction on robocars, and why Elon Musk keeps failing with his predictions

Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes 13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on. (3 companies are waiting on regulators to deploy right now.) It wasn t just a joke, though, it was based on my real predictions of the time, so as we approach the date I predicted, I ve…