Autonomous cars still have the failings of cars in general, they suck as a form of mass transportation, especially in cities. Needing 8m² to carry one to four people isn’t efficient in places with limited road space.
Lemmy being Lemmy, it immediately jumped to ideological purity. As is everybody else on Lemmy, I’m painfully aware of its stance of “car bad”. And I don’t even disagree, but the comparison clearly was between cars and autonomous cars. A properly implemented distributed autonomous system will be better and safer than human drivers, and that was my point. We are not getting rid of cars anytime soon, so might as well make them less bad in the meantime.
But autonomous cars are a good thing. It’s the execution that’s lacking.
Autonomous cars with couplers and guide rails is the most effective implementation.
Autonomous cars still have the failings of cars in general, they suck as a form of mass transportation, especially in cities. Needing 8m² to carry one to four people isn’t efficient in places with limited road space.
Lemmy being Lemmy, it immediately jumped to ideological purity. As is everybody else on Lemmy, I’m painfully aware of its stance of “car bad”. And I don’t even disagree, but the comparison clearly was between cars and autonomous cars. A properly implemented distributed autonomous system will be better and safer than human drivers, and that was my point. We are not getting rid of cars anytime soon, so might as well make them less bad in the meantime.
My Sibling in sin. This isn’t ideological purity. This is Maths.