Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and “Alcohol Intoxication”

Re:Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and... by Dylan16807 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:13PM (#34759319)

If you bring out metros, you can get to those numbers, but now you're at a tiny number of places, and most cities just aren't dense enough for that even if they're going for great public transit.

> otherwise you need big big roads to avoid traffic jams

Right, that's the main downside, but there's a lot of areas where they'd fit.

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Re:Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and... by palata on Sunday February 12, 2023 @05:04PM (#34767585)

I think trams and buses work well, too. Of course buses are getting closer to autonomous taxis, but it still feels more efficient to share a bus than to have one person per taxi :).

Then of course they can be used together. In my city there is a system of rental cars that you leave at different stops: you have a card and can just take the car if it's there. The car doesn't come to you, but still it's a pretty good solution I think.

Anyway, autonomous cars have to get reliable before they can actually be used with public transports, I guess.

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