News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tesla Owners Can Edit Maps to Improve Summon Routes. Parent comment

Re:Tesla Owners Can Edit Maps to Improve Summon Routes by braythwayt on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:07AM (#21504891)
The whole premise of autonomous cars is that they behave like limos. I don’t see how that is any worse than people driving their own cars, I see it as better in many ways, including this.

Not as good as people sharing cars, or sharing a Big Urban Service vehicle, we could build it to hold dozens of people... I guess it would be known by the acronym “BUS...”

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tesla Owners Can Edit Maps to Improve Summon Routes by close04 on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:55AM (#21505273)
> The whole premise of autonomous cars is that they behave like limos

Those would be the fully self driving cars. Cars that can somehow navigate short distances to a parking spot where the next person takes over would be the middle step. They sort of act like a valet service or a "self driven taxi" (comes to you where you need it).

> I don’t see how that is any worse

A FSD is not worse. Just not better for anyone but the owner unless it's a shared vehicle. The only way we all benefit is if the number of cars goes down because they are shared or people move to more public forms of transport.

[ Parent | on HN ]