Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by anigbrowl on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:14PM
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I don't think individual vehicles can ever achieve the same envirnmental economies of scale as trains. Certainly they're far more convenient (especially for short-haul journeys) but I also think they're somewhat alienating, in that they're engineering humans out of the loop completely which contributes to social atomization.
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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by xnx on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:37PM
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> I don't think individual vehicles can ever achieve the same envirnmental economies of scale as trains.
I think you'd be surprised. Look at the difference in cost per passenger mile.
Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv...
by Mawr on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:28PM
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I'm looking. Comes out unfavorably to cars. Obviously.
I guess you're comparing the total cost of trains vs a subset of costs of cars, as is usual. Road use and pollution are free externalities after all.