3 ms·
The idea of self-driving cars being practical somewhere like Bangalore is laughable.
by tspike 8y ago
The idea of self-driving cars being practical somewhere like Bangalore is laughable.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoTraffic saturated cities like Bangalore and Beijing have the strongest reasons to make self driving vehicles work, however. It is laughable that Americans would be the ones to do this, given their relatively traffic light cities (even LA is nothing compared to BJ) and high rates of personal car ownership.
- omosubi 8y agoDon't the traffic saturated cities have a better incentive to make public transportation as good as possible? Less people on the roads seems like it would benefit everyone in that case, whereas most american cities are too sparse to support that kind of infrastructure
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThey do that as well. The problem persists inspite of Beijing’s huge and growing subway system. Take myself as an example, I decided taking a taxi to work was worth it over a subway ride because of the crowded conditions...even though it lived and worked near stations on the same line. American cities has plenty of space to build new roads, that isn’t possible in many Chinese cities. Anyways, roads and private transportation will always be there, why not optimize it along with a decent public transit system to boot?
- toast0 8y agoThe key is to start with a self-driving autorickshaw. Then you can pathfind as a straight line and just move forward whenever there is at least an inch of space. The real trick will be automating the horn.
- tspike 8y agoLOL. On second thought, that... might actually work.