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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by jmye on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:21PM (#46239770)
> I hope to god this never ever happens.

Then I'll never buy an autonomous vehicle.

I get that most people just want short trips around a major city, but given we, I'm sure it's shocking, don't all live in places like that, or want to spend our time in places like that, it might behoove y'all to solve for other use cases if you want widespread adoption (or at least accept that it's ok to solve for those use cases).

Or, I guess, you can hope that everyone will suddenly decide that all they want is to live in modern Kowloon City because "roads are awful" or whatever memetic nonsense is trending on TikTok.

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by eldaisfish on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:56AM (#46244724)
"we" here is a minority of the population in any developed country. The vast majority of people - almost globally - live in dense areas.
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by robocat on Friday December 12, 2025 @06:25PM (#46250294)
Rubbish.

Population density varies, and your cutoff between "dense" and "not dense" must be tautological.

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