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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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Right?! But yawning or not, welcome to the new world.
Kinda just feels like a shittier version of the old world.
Nah, fam. This is the funner version of the old world!
Where nobody can afford gaming PCs anymore just so some upper middle class people can live out their fantasy of clogging up the highway and sitting in traffic without having to physically hold the steering wheel.
Imagine for a second if all these cars were self driving! It would look exactly the same!
Brah, I get what you are saying. But you are complaining that people can't "afford gaming PCs." That sounds pretty 1st world problems to me. Now if ya wanna talk about healthcare, education, food, etc., then yeah.
But seriously?! You're mad because vid games are expensive? If that's your argument, I'm voting on side of self-driving cars.
What gives you the right to assume cars will be a better use of these chips than humans will?
My criticism of self-driving cars here is focused on 3d computing aspects because we are talking about Nvidia in this context.
I have plenty of other criticisms of self-driving cars, they are stupid vapid idea in general compared to actual solutions like mass transit, remote work, and building livable, walkable landscapes.
I dig 'em. And they are coming, regardless of how much you are annoyed by them.
Are they? People have been saying that for awhile.
Do you seriously think that we aren't going to have self-driving cars be the majority in the future? Brah, come on now...
Honestly I don't care either way because cars aren't the future but no I do not think self-driving cars will be the majority anytime soon.
The sky will be full of truly autonomous vehicles long before autonomous ground vehicles will be mastered, it is the hardest category to pass off to a navigation AI and yeah I am completely unimpressed by current iterations of self-driving cars especially given how much the CEOs pump up the capabilities while ignoring reality.
What will happen is cars get harder and harder to crash with more and more assistance, but the idea of fully self-driving cars outside of limited fixed routes is a pipe dream and worse it distracts people from thinking about more transformative transit technologies. I am sure there will be a smaller number of approved fully autonomous driving routes but the further you go down that road the more you are just reinventing mass transit in a less efficient fashion.
Good points.