Showing posts with label "inflated expectations". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "inflated expectations". Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2018

The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018; Ars Technica, December 30, 2018

Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica; The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

"In the self-driving world, there's been a lot of discussion recently about the hype cycle, a model for new technologies that was developed by the Gartner consulting firm. In this model, new technologies reach a "peak of inflated expectations" (think the Internet circa 1999) before falling into a "trough of disillusionment." It's only after these initial overreactions—first too optimistic, then too pessimistic—that public perceptions start to line up with reality."