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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by woopwoop on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:15PM (#36182746)
The average American spends about an hour a day driving. You are awake for about 16 hours a day. So truly self-driving cars, where you can fall asleep or pull out your laptop and work on something else, give you 1/16th of your life back. If you live to the age of 80, it's like an extra five years.

That's worth a lot. Some kind of hybrid state where you need to always have your eyes on the road but maybe can take your hands off the wheel? Yeah I agree, I don't really see the point in that case. Or at least it's not something I get excited over.

Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by jaclaz on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:44AM (#36184842)
To be fair, what will happen is more likely to be 5 extra years on Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.