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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by earthling8118 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:13AM (#34612589)
At some point this attitude has to be given up. There's no reason traffic circles should cost millions to billions. I'd be willing to wager that this short sighted, quick and dirty meantime fix strategy has been employed too much and now we've arrived at this reality.
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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by zopa on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:58PM (#34615697)
It’s not an “attitude”, it’s an objective fact about how capital project go in the US right now.

I’ve got theories, but I don’t really know what the best way is to fix that. We probably need to try a bunch of things, and I’m all for that.

But drivers running red lights kill people. I’m for for the ideal, elegant solutions, and also for the imperfect incremental ones. I really don’t think worse-is-better, if that’s what you’re advocating, is appropriate.

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