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Self-driving convoying essentially boils down to doing this. The problem in your approach is fully locking the brakes rather than slightly decelerating the car.

by rocqua 4y ago

Self-driving convoying essentially boils down to doing this. The problem in your approach is fully locking the brakes rather than slightly decelerating the car. I'd also guess that after 2 years of your system most people would manage to keep their distance. Would probably work great except for merging.

lifeisstillgood 4y ago
I am however convinced by the "less cars, not self driving cars" argument. Urban redesign, reclaiming back some of the on average 1/3 of city surface area dedicated to cars / roads, more reliable public surface transport (I mean are we seriously asking "can we increase the likelihood of a subway crash in order to increase capacity" instead of asking "why don't we have hundreds or thousands more buses on the roads"? There is a whole polemic Inshoukd be writing about how societies use stickingmplaster solutions over actual solutions - from Iran 1956 to 6th gen aircraft, meat eating, brexit, it's a long polemic
- rocqua 4y ago
  In America, you are presumably correct, though it is somewhat of a false dichotomy. In less car based countries like my home country the Netherlands, there isn't as much room for 'less cars' (though still plenty, just nowhere near as bad as America). Hence self-driving cars here are more important. Besides the solution in America is likely to be both less cars and self driving cars. So it's not like self driving cars aren't worth developing. They are, however, not an argument that "we don't need to get alternatives to cars".
  - lifeisstillgood 4y ago
    The problem (as I see it) was s not R&D, it's human nature. If there is a possible self driving car we can put things off, imagine a different mix etc. Almost all of the climate chnage debate is really (excluding the fringes) not "is climate chnage real" but "exactly how much do I have to do to fix it". An analogy is I don't dispute that I am overweight, and that will impact my lifespan, but t there is a debate on whether that means a calorie controlled plant based diet from tonight along with four hours in the gym each day, or I "make an effort to cut down". Imagine AOC and Greta Thunberg as the personal trainers, and Bjorn Lornborg as the CEO of low calorie beer and no-salt chips LLC. I think I have wondered off the point - but essentially we have within us the solution to all our ills. Politics is just the voices in our heads as we try to talk ourselves into going to the gym and sticking to a budget.

by rocqua 4y ago

lifeisstillgood 4y ago

I am however convinced by the "less cars, not self driving cars" argument. Urban redesign, reclaiming back some of the on average 1/3 of city surface area dedicated to cars / roads, more reliable public surface transport (I mean are we seriously asking "can we increase the likelihood of a subway crash in order to increase capacity" instead of asking "why don't we have hundreds or thousands more buses on the roads"? There is a whole polemic Inshoukd be writing about how societies use stickingmplaster solutions over actual solutions - from Iran 1956 to 6th gen aircraft, meat eating, brexit, it's a long polemic

rocqua 4y ago
In America, you are presumably correct, though it is somewhat of a false dichotomy. In less car based countries like my home country the Netherlands, there isn't as much room for 'less cars' (though still plenty, just nowhere near as bad as America). Hence self-driving cars here are more important. Besides the solution in America is likely to be both less cars and self driving cars. So it's not like self driving cars aren't worth developing. They are, however, not an argument that "we don't need to get alternatives to cars".
- lifeisstillgood 4y ago
  The problem (as I see it) was s not R&D, it's human nature. If there is a possible self driving car we can put things off, imagine a different mix etc. Almost all of the climate chnage debate is really (excluding the fringes) not "is climate chnage real" but "exactly how much do I have to do to fix it". An analogy is I don't dispute that I am overweight, and that will impact my lifespan, but t there is a debate on whether that means a calorie controlled plant based diet from tonight along with four hours in the gym each day, or I "make an effort to cut down". Imagine AOC and Greta Thunberg as the personal trainers, and Bjorn Lornborg as the CEO of low calorie beer and no-salt chips LLC. I think I have wondered off the point - but essentially we have within us the solution to all our ills. Politics is just the voices in our heads as we try to talk ourselves into going to the gym and sticking to a budget.