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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by seanmcdirmid on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:18PM (#17981537)
> America could build up municipal rail and bus infrastructure to ....

I don’t think the killer market for driverless cars in America in the first place. Places like China that have all that (commuter rail, subway) but lack places for new roads and parking would benefit greatly from optimizing their limited road infrastructure. They already have people who are used to taking taxies everywhere, now make the ring roads automated only to triple their capacity.

Europe, Asia, can be benefit greatly from driverless cars because they have a different situation from America.

Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by mikepurvis on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:45PM (#17982392)
Most North American cities also lack the space for new roads and parking, at least in the places people actually want to go to.
Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by seanmcdirmid on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:43PM (#17983365)
Not on similar scales. I found traffic in NYC to be a dream compared to Beijing.