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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by alooPotato on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:37PM (#38006653)
yeah but it does have to have enough people for it to be efficient moving around that giant wall of metal
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by footy on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:50AM (#38011412)
turns out that compared to lugging a living room around for every (average car occupancy of) 1.5 people on the road, a bus system has an extremely low efficiency bar to cross.
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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by alooPotato on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:32PM (#38015541)
buses are roughly equivalent in energy per passenger mile vs cars when you consider average loads for each.
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