Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:09PM
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This so much this. Forget America or even the west, in Beijing you have to be prepared for anything to happen at anytime. So everyone drives “on edge” so to speak because you never know when some idiot will stop and back up on the expressway cause they missed their exist or some electric trike will barge straight into oncoming traffic. On the other hand, yielding is almost unheard of and traffic will rather try to sway around pedestrians.
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Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by jrs95 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:23PM
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You'd think a relatively authoritarian government would be able to stop people from doing this sort of thing. It's kind of amusing, from that perspective
Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:38PM
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China is authoritarian until it’s not. Most authoritarian countries are weak on rule of law and more aptly practice rule by law, where laws are just used to control the people vs. applied fairly. So laws are just used to get what officials want (e.g. get rid of a pesky dissident), and most of them don’t care about traffic safety.