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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by muddyrivers on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:24PM (#12979951)
<i> The US, for the most part, doesn't have these problems (lots of roads, parking, and fairly well behaved drivers)...self driving cars are seen as more of a convenience than a necessity. </i>

The same problems exist in metropolitan areas in US as well, like Bay Area, NYC, Chicago, etc. although to a less degree than those in China. In Bay Area, people are so exhausted by long-commute driving. Check how jammed the traffic is in 101, 880, 580, 237, etc. Bart and CalTrain's coverages are pretty limited. With self driving cars, I bet plenty of people will quit driving by themselves for the commute. Imagine one can read, relax, read a book, or even work in the car, instead of sitting behind the wheel for 2 hours a day.

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by istorical on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:09PM (#12980398)
You don't see 11 day, 75 mile long traffic jams in the US though.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/chinas-traffic-jam-lasts...

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:19PM (#12980515)
To be fair, that was mostly inter city truck drivers who didn't want to pay tolls while they were reconstructing the only non toll alternative.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by melling on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:42PM (#12980725)
Your point is that because we don't have 11 day traffic jams, means we should be content? We're being unreasonable to want to hours of our lives every week?
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:56PM (#12980263)
Well, in china I just take a taxi. It wasn't a problem for me. But even though I had the convenience, capacity is an issue. I just moved to LA from Beijing, and I'm so impressed how nice the traffic is and how convenient parking is.
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