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New York City is not going to see robo taxis for a very, very long time. We are just now catching up to the rest of the cities in terms of how garbage is collec
by renegade-otter 2y ago
New York City is not going to see robo taxis for a very, very long time. We are just now catching up to the rest of the cities in terms of how garbage is collected, after about a hundred years.
- desert_rue 2y agoPlus subway bits that are from the 1930s
- asah 2y agoSadly I agree: NYC users will trash the cars.
- renegade-otter 2y agoIt's not just that - it's a crazy city and we all jaywalk. No automated vehicle can handle NYC, barring dedicated streets (which I feel like is what will happen).
- asah 2y ago-1: Waymo has proven itself adept at avoiding jaywalkers, bicycles, etc.
- Karrot_Kream 2y agoIs that an issue? It's a dense city which puts the pedestrian on top of the transit hierarchy. There's no need for cars there. Phoenix is car-dependent sprawl and even after removing parking minimums, upzoning, and running BRT or other high LOS transit, you're still looking at large parts of the city where it'll probably take decades to be viable to run transit to and are impossible to walk to. In SF the core is walkable and has great transit but the moment you get to the outer neighborhoods transit LOS decreases significantly and there's large parts unserviced. Waymo makes more sense there. Plus SF is abutted by suburbs with retirement-age-and-above populations who fight densification at every turn where it's impossible to get from city-center to city-center via any form of transit.