Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it

Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by chongli on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:14PM (#34590964)

There is a way to solve all these issues: keep humans (and other animals) away. This is how it's done with railroads. Unfortunately, there's not a whole of advantage in eliminating the engineer of a train since the ratio of engineers to passengers is so small to begin with.

I think instead of flirting with this absurd fantasy of self-driving cars we should be doing more to invest in railroads and other forms of mass transit so that people don't need to drive at all. Europe and Asia are far ahead of North America in this regard.

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by jwestbury on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:18AM (#34594656)

Mass transit doesn't get you exactly where you need to go. In areas with lower population density, it's especially unprofitable and difficult to implement -- and even if communities can afford it, it will deliver people even FARTHER from where they need to go.

I'm a transit advocate, but there are some fundamental issues that need to be resolved first, especially in North America.

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by ghaff on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:13AM (#34596034)

Even in Europe, there are a lot of places you can't get to or get to easily without a car. I've done long distance walks in England, for example, and once you get beyond cities and larger towns, it's often the case that there may be a once or twice a day bus.

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