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Yeah, in small isolated places I am sure it can work. But try taking a horse from Quincy, MA to Washing D.C. Like John Adams did many times. If self driving doe

Yeah, in small isolated places I am sure it can work. But try taking a horse from Quincy, MA to Washing D.C. Like John Adams did many times. If self driving doesn't become "illegal" but regulated to small isolated areas (aka "tracks"), than you might as well just make it illegal. A lot of people who like driving won't be able to afford having a self driving car, and a manual driving car, a trailer so they can transport their manual driving car legally to the track. Not to mention, most tracks are boring, mostly flat, circles and not at all the same as driving on a mountainous road.

icebraining 7y ago
Why not? Alvin Straight went from Laurens, IA to Blue River, WI in a lawn mower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight
romwell 7y ago
>But try taking a horse from Quincy, MA to Washing D.C. Like John Adams did many times. I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc). I highly doubt that the number horse-accessible roads has declined since John Adams times. We really have built a lot more roads since then, even allocating a small percentage to horses would be way more than was available back than. TL;DR: John Adams didn't take the interstate either.
- hitpointdrew 7y ago
  >I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc). You're not wrong about this. But even if there was horse-supporting infrastructure along the way, riding a horse from Quincy to D.C. would still be way harder today, if not impossible. Just due to riding on the roads with cars, and find routes that aren't the interstate, or some major road where horse riding isn't allowed.

icebraining 7y ago

Why not? Alvin Straight went from Laurens, IA to Blue River, WI in a lawn mower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight

romwell 7y ago

>But try taking a horse from Quincy, MA to Washing D.C. Like John Adams did many times. I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc). I highly doubt that the number horse-accessible roads has declined since John Adams times. We really have built a lot more roads since then, even allocating a small percentage to horses would be way more than was available back than. TL;DR: John Adams didn't take the interstate either.

hitpointdrew 7y ago
>I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc). You're not wrong about this. But even if there was horse-supporting infrastructure along the way, riding a horse from Quincy to D.C. would still be way harder today, if not impossible. Just due to riding on the roads with cars, and find routes that aren't the interstate, or some major road where horse riding isn't allowed.