Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’

Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:56PM (#20471719)

Your comment is how things "should work", but really not how they do. At least in the U.S.

The drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles is about 3.5 hours. It's a 90 minute flight.

If you try to do it by Bus it takes 12 (often for about 1/2 the price of the plane ticket), and for some reason a train with NO STOPS took 16 hours. Which was discontinued just a couple years ago, because no one was using it.

Maybe someday we will get a high speed Mag Lev train for this commute, because mass transit has completely failed this commute.

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Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by runarberg on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:34PM (#20473189)

> Your comment is how things "should work", but really not how they do. At least in the U.S.

Since this is a comment on a thread about the possibility of building the infrastructure required for highway lanes reserved for autonomous cars, i.e. a thread about how things "could work" I see no problems with giving my self the same leeway for the established technology as the parent does for any future technology.

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Re:Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Fut... by brokenmachine on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:07AM (#20476512)

Why did the bus trip take 12 hours when it's only a 3.5 hour drive?

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