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California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars (www.washingtonpost.com)

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In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.

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[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago

Yeah...Great...

How about building public transport and not such stupid things?

[-] Zalack@startrek.website 24 points 11 months ago

Self driving cars could actually be kind of a good stepping stone to better public transit while making more efficient use of existing roadways. You hit a button to request a car, it drives you to wherever, you need to go, and then gets tasked to pick up the next person. Where you used to need 10 cars for 10 people, you now need one.

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Thats still only a few people.. compared to a bus?

Why not just have a bus??

[-] monk@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

I take the bus to work every day. It's a set route for my set work schedule and it's great.

But everything else I do in my life? Not on a bus route, schedules are slow on the weekend or stop completely after a certain time.

When you come up with a bus that goes wherever I want to go when I want, I'm in. Until then, a car that doesn't require a driver and is easily shared between many people to take them the last mile is an actual solution.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Buses suck because they're like cars only worse.

Cars suck because of the amount of infrastructure you have to build for them all to avoid proper design of anything.

In a well designed area, you'd be able to get wherever you needed without having to take either of these things.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago

Uber

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

You mean like a self driving Uber?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Why is that necessary?

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