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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

So bike lanes but for cars. What could go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If tomorrow we banned non-self-driving (NSD) cars, sure. But in most countries, grandfathering in old cars is going to happen for a while. Which means that self-driving and non-self-driving cars will have to share the road.

I could see some transitions possibly. For example, on a 4-lane highway: "In 2027, lane 1 will be separated by a barrier and only allow SD cars. Lanes 2-4 will be for NSD cars only. In 2029, lanes 1-2 for SD. By 2033, NSD cars will be banned on this highway."

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (13 children)

How many times will techbros reinvent the train/tram until North America finally starts laying down rails?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Don't even need to lay down rails. The rails are already there. Built by Chinese slave labor 150 years ago. We need merely to seize them.

Or just cut a check to the freight companies.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Trains don't self-drive, though.

Edit: Okay, for the pedants: most trains don't self-drive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

DLR trains do, and several airport trains.

Some London Underground lines have drivers that only intervene in the automatic operation of the train in an emergency or abnormal condition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Someone has never been to most airports. Or Disney World.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That's not most trains. Those are highly specialized and constrained applications. There are already self-driving taxis in certain defined city areas, so they're still ahead by that standard.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But do you know how easy it is to have self driving train compared to self driving car? Because trains only need speed control. Honestly trains are already almost self driving and only needs human inputs occasionally.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Can't we just do like, lines on the road that have specific meanings? We could put it all in a book of rules and standards? Make it a nation wide system?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Didn't Elmo muskrats tunnel end up causing more traffic?

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