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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by xyproto on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:50AM (#36996324)
If a city banned all manually driven cars and allowed only self driving cars, the number of car-related deaths would drop to almost nothing. Goods could also be transported more efficiently. The technology to achive this exists right now, L5 or not. The only thing stopping citites from doing this is the cost that inhabitants will have in connection with selling or switching our their car. And all the complaining. But lives would be saved, and the city would be safer and more efficient.
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by pjerem on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:10AM (#36996485)
Cities will not need to do that. In Europe they are gradually banning cars as a whole from city centers an you are right, it saves lives. And it also makes those cities more livable.

When I say gradually, it's an euphemism, it's an _extremely_ slow process, but it's the global tendency here.

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by choeger on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:30AM (#36997113)
They aren't banning cars. They're requiring special permits. That's a difference. In effect, they're banning cars for the masses and keep them for a small group (the wealthy, all sorts of delivery drivers, officials).
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by ArnoVW on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:06AM (#36997369)
you're both right.

generally what's happening is a combination of:

    * making pedestrian zones (i.e. banning)
    * deny access to certain types / times  (no vans, no old cars, etc.. i.e. also banning)
    * reducing roads (i.e. 2 > 1 lane, thus reducing attractivity)
    * raising driving prices (the congestion / air quality certificates you mention)
    * reducing access to parking (remove places, make them more expensive, etc)
.. all the while increasing alternatives (i.e. use those reduced lanes for bikes)
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by xkcd1963 on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:14AM (#37000375)
I keep hearing life in Germany gets worse and worse
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by Dylan16807 on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:53AM (#36996345)
I'm not sure how relevant that argument is.

You could have said the same thing 40 years ago.

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by xyproto on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:56AM (#36998692)
No. Self driving cars are better now.

Cities are also more open to changing which rules cars should follow, because the effects of climate change are more visible, and the effects of pulluted air are better known.

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