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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by Niten on Sunday October 10, 2010 @02:16AM (#1776651)
And I suppose we'll have to get rid of bicycles and pedestrians, too, in this perfect world where intuition of human behavior is unnecessary to safely pilot a vehicle on the road?
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Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic by Groxx on Monday October 11, 2010 @01:59PM (#1780545)
Far from it. If cars were less dangerous to bikers and pedestrians, people could actually use bike lanes safely, and cross at walk signals.

Besides. I never said nor implied "perfect". Merely better, and being better is easier without other human drivers, who can far more quickly take a bad (or good) situation and make it worse. Bikes don't go 60+ mph and weigh over a ton. Neither do pedestrians. And very few of either of those carry large quantities of gasoline.

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