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[meme] There is no one-size-fits-all solution to transportation (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re not a solution simply because they’re still cars, and therefore take up the same grossly excessive amount of space as non-autonomous cars do.

Yeah, the only things autonomous cars might reduce are:

Parking, but only if we forego our current private ownership model and everyone starts doing self-driving robo-taxis everywhere (unlikely)
Road fatalities, but only if the self-driving tech proves statistically better than human drivers in a wide range of conditions (jury is still out)

It's the same fundamental problem that electric cars have: geometry. Cars -- even if electric and self-driving -- are simply grossly inefficient at moving people for the amount of land they require:

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Except that the jury is not "still out" on number two, it is simply a matter of time, engineering, and training before they are statistically safer than humans.

Waymo's cars are already safer than humans in their limited conditions.