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Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by wiz21c on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:47AM (#15650705)
another climate apocalypse... 'cos even if all of these cars are electrical, they still need quite a lot of energy to be built and, after a while, destroyed...
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Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by lallysingh on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:05AM (#15652469)
One mitigating factor for that is that service cars will have much higher duty cycles (80%+?) than private cars currently do (5%).

What might be interesting is how they deal with peak usages like commute hours. Would swarms of cars try to hop over to the next time zone when it's easy?

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Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by mcny on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:42AM (#15651462)
I feel the same way but I feel a little guilty for feeling that way. It feels like saying climate change will get way worse if poor people can afford to eat beef (because cowd fart and stuff).
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