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What, like an incredibly space inefficient train or bus? It will also cause insane traffic congestion if people cared less about the congestion. At a certain l
by martinald 9y ago
What, like an incredibly space inefficient train or bus? It will also cause insane traffic congestion if people cared less about the congestion.
At a certain level of congestion people think it will take too long and avoid the journey. All this will do is move the threshold even higher. Most metro areas need to look at transit as the solution. Self driving vehicles may play a role in feeder routes but the idea suddenly congestion will be solved because of self driving vehicles is crazy; and IMO will actually be the opposite.
- adamnemecek 9y agoTrain or bus are pretty annoying. Like quite a few times, the bus is packed.
- martinald 9y agoYes but you've probably got 100 people on the bus if it's packed in a few square metres of road space. If you had a self driving vehicle that was comfortable, you'd need probably 100s of square m of road space to take all the people. Which means even more immense congestion.
- RandallBrown 9y agoThat's kinda like saying your yard is a space inefficient park. There are good reasons people don't want to be crammed on a bus or train with other people all of the time.
- martinald 9y agoBuy first class train tickets then? On DB you can even get a private office on ICE trains. They're really expensive; because that amount of space is by its nature expensive.
- walshemj 9y agoif I could afford that I wouldn't need to work - get real mate
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoThat's just lazy thinking... I for one, am looking forward to my self-driving car so that I can masturbate on my commute to and from work everyday. They tend to frown on that on most trains... even with a first class ticket.
- drb91 9y agoRemote work could solve congestion.
- mikepurvis 9y agoBut remote work has been an option for decades, and rush hour is still a thing.
- Retric 9y agoThe US has largely abandoned new road construction which IMO is a large part of the issue. There is an old saying you can't build your way out of congestion, but it really does work in many areas. Just look at a small town building a bypass. The problem is when congestion is so bad it's suppressing trips there is a middle ground when improvements are less obvious. That and city's need to be designated to absorb highway traffic or highways just end up as expensive parking lots.
- drb91 9y agoAn option, sure, but not for the labor side of things, and why should a corp care about congestion?
- drdeadringer 9y agoThere are jobs you cannot do remotely, or at the very least requires a person on site for your remote commands to work.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoRemote work requires eye contact, which doesn’t exist yet. It will happen rapidly once we have VR with eye tracking. The other thing missing from remote work tools is collocated workspaces (can’t fit that on your monitor). Existing VR tech solves that problem though. Instead of working on Google Docs in your office, you’ll work IN Google Docs in VR, and your coworkers will be there nearby, and you’ll be able to talk face to face without leaving your workspace.
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- lifeformed 9y agoBut cars get you to exactly where you need to go, and leave whenever you want to leave.
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