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Right, and machines could prevent other forms of murder, or help the elderly, or reduce fatal injuries in construction by using robots, etc, etc. It would be co
by ksk 8y ago
Right, and machines could prevent other forms of murder, or help the elderly, or reduce fatal injuries in construction by using robots, etc, etc. It would be cool to get to that stage. Potential != Reality. The reality is that we're far far away from autonomous vehicles operating safely on roads as they are currently designed.
If you want to simply reduce vehicle related deaths, you could address this through various ways like improving road safety/visibility, adding more driver assistance aids. Or heck, design a protocol to disallow cars from starting with a drunk driver or without a seat-belt, etc etc. Maybe people who get into even minor accidents need extra training, etc. etc. There's so many low hanging fruit here..
- cozzyd 8y agoYeah or simply raise licensing requirements. They are ridiculously lax in the US at least.
- djsumdog 8y agoOr rebuilding America's crippled mass transit infrastructure. Billions are going in subsidies to self-driving tech. We could at least get the largest cities back into mass transit, train, express bus form with late night operations. You allow the blue collar worker to get home safely after drinking for a minimal amount of money and you'll see an improvement in road safety as well as economic growth.
- abawany 8y agoI am very much with you on this but I was saddened to read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub... - it describes active attempts to throttle adoption of mass transit.
- leopoldo 8y agoI don't get it - that's so short sighted. It really saddens me. Especially in cities like Nashville, who are not very large or dense, but have the opportunity to grow by a lot in the coming decades. At least having an approved and implemented project in plans would be immensely beneficial to that community. Disclaimer, I have never been to Nashville, but I've heard about it from people who have been there and did a bit of reading 5 minutes ago.
- ams6110 8y agoIt would take far more than billions to expand mass transit meaningfully. Billions would get you maybe one new subway line in one city.
- djsumdog 8y agoYou'd get more than you think. Seattle's $58 billion ST3 project gets a train from Seattle to Redmond, Edmonds, a west loop and a street car expansion: http://soundtransit3.org/calculator http://soundtransit3.org/calculator It's a sizable chunk of transit. It's all about the priorities of a city.