If we leave it up to the free market to decide how they should be deployed and regulated it'll be a shitshow, no doubt about that. Of course, our roads are alre

If we leave it up to the free market to decide how they should be deployed and regulated it'll be a shitshow, no doubt about that. Of course, our roads are already a shitshow, because we let the car industry decide how we should design our cities, and then enshrined the resulting dysfunctions in law. Waymo at least is signalling responsible deployment, they announced today a partnership with the Phoenix Valley transit authority to help encourage greater transit use. One valid point they made was that while mass transit is great in high demand areas and along major transit corridors, out on the feeder routed the suburban sprawl it isn't so effective. Service is infrequent and off-peak busses run mostly empty. Robotaxis will be great for getting suburbanites from their homes to major transit hubs. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/07/waymo-pilot-program-shows-how-self-driving-cars-could-boost-transit/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/07/waymo-pilot-program-sho...