The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated

Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by emceestork on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:46PM (#36182239)

I imagine a world in which I can take a road trip while asleep in my car (or reading or working). That would be pretty wonderful.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by manicennui on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:53PM (#36182291)

You mean like a train?

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by ravitation on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:18PM (#36182431)

A majority of the use cases for self-driving cars are either solvable, or already solved, by some combination of better urban planning (i.e. zoning and probably large-scale regulatory reform), public transit (specifically useful public transit), and public investment. Unfortunately, in the United States, we are unable to do even one of these things sufficiently well, hence the need for self-driving cars (or, in some cases, some other technological solution; e.g. hyperloop).

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by valine on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:13PM (#36182738)

I don’t know, can a train take you from any arbitrary point to any other arbitrary point?

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by 878654Tom on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:44AM (#36183175)

Can a car?

Why do people always seem to forget that cars also requires huge infrastructure changes, even more so than some other options.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by cypress66 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:12AM (#36183025)

Yes, from the train station inside my garage to the train station inside the hotel. /s

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by recursive on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:20PM (#36189697)

No it's not like that at all. It leaves whenever you want.

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