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I'm hoping one day we'll look back on car driving as something as horrendous as gladiatorial entertainment in Rome. In the UK we have 1 child killed and 37 ser
by dm319 9y ago
I'm hoping one day we'll look back on car driving as something as horrendous as gladiatorial entertainment in Rome.
In the UK we have 1 child killed and 37 seriously injured every week.
- jacquesm 9y agoSelf driving cars will not solve this problem unless they collectively decide not to drive any more. A better solution would be to set towns and cities up in such a way that the various traffic streams are separated vertically.
- drewm1980 9y agoSome people are not capable of transporting their own bodies, and we're always going to need motorized transport for them. Self driving cars will be super-human in most of the ways that matter for driving (reaction time, constant vigilance, ability to analyze a scene in all directions, experience gathered from an entire fleet of cars). I hate cars, but I'm hopeful they'll be so much better and also so much more expensive, that we'll have a much smaller, much safer fleet of them, and humans driving in most circumstances will be banned.
- ebcode 9y agoI believe you're right about that looking back. One of the safest developments in car culture has been the round-a-bout. Of course that works so well because it physically prevents the collisions that would otherwise happen in the centers of intersections. My hope is that we will extend that idea to all roads everywhere, and that future generations will physically separate roads intended for cars from roads intended for cyclists and pedestrians. Burying them underground but w/ ventilation for the exhaust, for example.
- trgn 9y agoI forget where I heard this joke. In the future, little Johnny and grandpa are fishing on the lake, after being driven there by their self-driving car. "You see that car there Johnny? When I was young, we had to drive these ourselves if we wanted to go fishing. It was great! You felt the wind in your hair, you could go wherever you want, whenever you want, you could make out with your sweetheart in the backseat, you would never feel so free!" "Whoa, grandpa! Wasn't that dangerous, going so fast without the help of a computer?" "Oh yeah, millions died".
- alphaalpha101 9y agoI've never seen any convincing argument that self-driving cars will be any safer than existing cars. Self-driving cars are not what the world needs. The world needs zero cars.
- dm319 9y agoThat's great - thanks for sharing.