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Fascinating how slowly driverless cars have progressed in the past 5-10 years.

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• acdha 4y ago
  It really shows who the sober voices were: the people selling huge valuations had billion-dollar marketing marketing and were able to drown them out, but it’s not like there weren’t plenty of skeptics. Unfortunately, there’s pare some powerful politics behind the dream: cars are inherently unscalable but everyone with an expensive suburban house wants to believe otherwise and since transit is coded poor in the U.S. politicians really liked the idea that they could do what the politically-powerful wanted by doing nothing they weren’t already doing. Why put effort into making buses efficient and annoying a bunch of car commuters when you can say FSD will fix it?
  • ElfinTrousers 4y ago
    As a friend of mine who's heavily involved in transit pointed out, we pretty much nailed autonomous self-driving subways a long time ago. But as you say, in the USA, mass transit is for poors.