$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck

Re:$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck by ehnto on Saturday October 15, 2022 @07:55AM (#33214034)

Then someone spray paints the sign, a taxi parks in the bike lane just behind a box truck blocking half the entrance to where you're going, meanwhile a cyclist rides the other direction directly toward you because human agents are chaotic and cities are full of them. Oh, a racoon!

Less tongue in cheek: I think we should optimize city centers for human scales and activities, rather than sending cars right through them at all. We already sacrifice so much for cars in their current state, if we have to optimize for their mobility even moreso we are going in the wrong direction I feel.

I'm not saying get rid of cars, just keep them out of the cities. Put them on roads, not streets.

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Re:$100B later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck by panick21_ on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:18PM (#33226835)

Cars should just be blocked from cities unless very special situations. Removing cars from cities has huge health and economic benefits. Car free city centers are universally better then car invested cities.

Cars where they are still allowed should move significantly slower, on much thinner roads.

Self-Driving will not solve anything for cities. They will solve even less then EVs.

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