The self-driving car is a red herring

Re:The self-driving car is a red herring by chrisco255 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:03PM (#24921234)

Public transportation is synchronous by necessity. Private transportation is asynchronous. There are tremendous economic benefits to asynchronous transport. The truth is a robust system would have a healthy mix of both.

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Re:The self-driving car is a red herring by cannabis_sam on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:29PM (#24921614)

I absolutely agree, the synchronous/asynchronous description is both absolutely apt and correct. But the choice for the individual is muddled by the very concept of externalities.

It’s cheaper to pollute our planet, than enduring the inconvenience of public transport.

But the only reason that is true, is the terrible economic systems we all live under.

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Re:The self-driving car is a red herring by autokad on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:53PM (#24921921)

> "But the choice for the individual"

End it there and stop trying to make decisions for other people.

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Re:The self-driving car is a red herring by cannabis_sam on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:43PM (#24944085)

Cute!

I’ll easily do that when every single western country stops subsidizing gasoline and shoveling the consequences onto younger generations.

End it there, and stop defending old people destroying the very foundation that humanity depends on.

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