In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.
Yeah…Great…
How about building public transport and not such stupid things?
Public transport has been around for many decades. The US infrastructure and now lifestyle / culture is not built for it and there’s not a great reason to think it’s suddenly going to catch on. Self driving cars have real potential in the US to have an environmental impact as well save many thousands of lives each year. I wish you were more excited about this.
Well, we’re not. There’s a reason you don’t see New York City jumping to adopt this tech, and it’s because they bothered to invest in a public transit system that makes cars obsolete for a lot of people. If we got decent public transit in more cities combined with an actually functional high speed rail system in this country, you’d see cars become obsolete for a whole lot more people.
This “lifestyle/culture” developed out of sheer necessity given the geographic size of this country and the complete failure to invest in mass transit. It can and must be changed, if we want our future to be viable at all.
While it is exciting, I can see both sides of the argument here. The infrastructure here in the US is built around cars so it would be much less effort to automate the existing infrastructure. On the other hand, things could be so much more efficient if we focused on trains and other public transport that excels at transporting a large amount of people. But that would take so much more effort and money to update the infrastructure.
Because one of them costs taxpayer money and the other one is just signing legislation? The two concepts aren’t even related other than that they are two different ways of getting to places.
Yeah because roads definitely don’t cost taxpayers a single dime. 🙄
Most SDCs in use currently are for public transport.
well, LA is building out a lot of light rail as of late at least
Isn’t a self driving car just a train? We should build trans and trollies instead. The tech is already there and they carry more people.
no a self driving car is much worse than a train
Good. I’m sick of the fearmonger. “OH NO, THIS ONE CAR GOT IN A CRASH!!!”
Yeah, but humans crash too?
When I worked on Google’s Waymo project, we only had a small handful of our cars involved in any collision on public roads. And every single one of them was from a human driver running into the SDC. I dunno if that’s changed since I left, but even in the early stages, SDCs are remarkably safe compared to human drivers.
And every single one of them was from a human driver running into the SDC
Yea, me too. I’m such a good driver, others are crashing into me every day…
regulators are grappling with how to control this rapidly developing industry.
Read: how to collect all these little black briefcases
EVs are a crutch for the failed auto industry. Personal vehicles made life worse over time. This is an extension of that mistake. The people defending it are myopic and lazy.
Personal vehicles made life worse over time.
When you guys are walking everywhere you’ll be regretting this insanity. Don’t bother responding, I’m not interested in your delusions and Lemmy.world has proven that real discussions are not possible here.
Lol this is such a weird sentiment to me. You realize many of us do walk everywhere, right?
“The people defending it are myopic and lazy.” I don’t think that’s a fair statement. If I could walk/bike everywhere I would but as it turns out my area isn’t walk-able at all. I didn’t choose the infrastructure I have.
