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And I articulate that position at the bottom of my screed. It could be, but only if cities actually maintain the infrastructure those driverless busses run on -

And I articulate that position at the bottom of my screed. It could be, but only if cities actually maintain the infrastructure those driverless busses run on - and since no city in America does, all we’re really pitching here is eliminating a job to make service worse to justify cutting it entirely later. It’s the same blinders I see time and time again: you cannot solve an inherently political problem through technology alone.

xnx 2y ago
> maintain the infrastructure those driverless busses run on One of the innovations of modern self driving systems is not requiring any accomodation from the infrastructure. It's the same idea as "smart endpoints and dumb pipes".
triceratops 2y ago
> only if cities actually maintain the infrastructure those driverless busses run on You mean roads? Yeah I guess if a city isn't up to maintaining its roads, it's pretty f*cked anyway. > you cannot solve an inherently political problem through technology alone Often technology moves a problem away from the realm of politics. Politics is a game of allocating limited resources. If technology brings abundance, the question of allocation is way less important.