That’s fucking bullshit, i thought the whole point of self driving cars was that tjey would be safer than human drivers, not more efficiently dangerous.
To be fair, they probably are safer. Even if they cross into a bike lane, sensor reaction time is far superior to any human. At least a couple of times now I’ve heard ties squealing behind me in a protected bus/bike line from cunts aggressively changing lane into it to get around traffic and only spotting my bike at the last second. I would feel much safer if 100% of cars on the road with me were controlled by software and not meatware.
Yeah but that didn’t mean these are safe. It’s just means humans are dangerous.
I’d rather be killed by a human than surrender my freedom to ai.
just not getting killed via transportation would be nice. Cars are dangerous, regardless of if they are controlled by meatware or machines.
Okay but the software in this case is clearly dangerous. They need to not park in bike lanes that just shouldn’t even be a question.
Expecting me to respect driverless taxis too high a bar.
I guess nobody in the car will stop you from slashing its tyres
Someone slashes your tires
Cops: 😴
You slash a driverless taxis tires
Cops: 🚓🚓🚓
If the driverless taxi could call the cops, imagine how many false positives there would be.
Nobody is going to come to help driverless taxis
Hard to insure what’s always on fire.
Time to start vandalizing waymo autonomous cars.
If I run a toy RC car into the road and start wreaking havoc, it’s a hazard. If they turn a full sized automobile into an RC car, it’s innovation!
Cities should give up some car parking spots, and make them drop-off/pick-up taxi spots.
I don’t know about other places, but this has been happening here in Seattle.
Great idea centralizing the drop of stops and doing that every 200m or so in a grid, especially at places of interest. Now you could make the self driving cars a little bigger so they carry more people. You could even connect several cars. At that point you can basically add a safety driver back in, with 20 ride sharers its still 95% self driving (compare that to Waymos that have uncertified safety drivers remoting from the Phillipines for 20% of the time). Run them on a predictable, frequent schedule, so you dont need an app to call them.
Finally make them drive in a separate lane, on iron tracks and make them draw their energy from an overhead wire for maximum efficiency.
I think cities need many modes of transit. Starting with rail, moving to buses, bicycles and taxi cabs as well.
I’d like to see trams, with flat boarding platforms, being used to move more cargo. No reason someone with a dolly, and 8 boxes on it, can’t use public transit. This would cut the cost of hauling things around. I can imagine farmers transporting things to neighborhood farmers markets using some form of train/tram combo.
Sound like the vehicles are not safe enough for use on public roads.
Oh, your car can’t follow the law? Then it isn’t allowed on the road.
Oh, your car broke the law? Owner of the car is liable.
Oh, your car is avoiding being pulled over? Owner of the car is liable.
Oh, it’s owned by a company not a person? Owner of the company is liable.
It’s a fleet car that will never have a driver, put everything on the CEO. And if there isn’t a CEO, pick a random person from the company. And if there ends up not being people at the company, the government now owns them and can do whatever they want with them. And if the government owns a fleet of something that’s dangerous to the public and doesn’t do anything about it, well then the people have a right to ownership.
If there is no liability, then nobody owns it and it’s up for grabs. Autonomous cars aren’t fucking dragonflies.
