Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by pyrolistical on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:53PM (#46239983)

> no more traffic

How? There would be a huge increase in demand on the roads. You said it yourself, you’d have to build more roads.

Unless you meant, no more [suffering] traffic, since you could just take a nap.

The only way I see self driving to be a true win if it is so efficient that you can remove all the roads and they become part of the mass transit system.

I would demand personal vehicles to pay a premium (cost plus) as they take up more space per person and add to infrastructure maintenance cost

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by foobarian on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:02AM (#46244230)

>> no more traffic

> How?

There would be no more traffic for the driver, who would be sleeping or watching Netflix

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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by bluGill on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:07PM (#46246083)

There are a bunch of it depends. A large part of traffic is because someone messes up - accidents cause large delays, but even a small mistake in merging can slow down several others. Though human drivers regularly tailgate, if self driving cars maintain their proper 3 second following distance we could need a lot more space. (though perhaps self driving can safely maintain even a closer distance than humans do - I don't know)

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