Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

Re:Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars H... by AlotOfReading on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:12PM (#38282556)

Neither Uber nor Lyft is "a bunch of sensors stuffed into a single car", to quote the comment I was replying to. But even counting them, public transit seems to be doing fine in Europe, Asia, and NYC despite the existence of ride-share services. Ride sharing services don't impose additional right of way constraints either because they're just private vehicles.

I guess I just don't understand why you'd say they prevent cities from improving public transit.

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Re:Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars H... by 11217mackem on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:29PM (#38285800)

if the amount of human and financial capital invested in ridesharing and autonomous vehicles was instead invested in mass transit in the US, nyc wouldn't be the only city in the nation where not owning a car is a (legitimate, long term) option without sacrifices

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Re:Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars H... by live_from_ny on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:39PM (#38308985)

I seriously doubt that. The amount of money that has been invested in autonomous driving is low tens of billions. It's the same order of magnitude as the cost of extending BART to SJ.

That's a good project, but it's just one. It would take vastly more money to actually make public transit great in the US, especially in many cities at once. I think the amount that has been privately invested in self-driving cars seems small in comparison.

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