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What a joy for people who live near commuter trains

• jcranmer 1y ago
  Maybe we should build more commuter trains so that more people can live near them, then.
  • xnx 1y ago
    A self-driving vehicle is like a commuter train that operates on your own schedule and goes between any two points and doesn't require billions of dollars of new tracks to be built and runs on clean electric power instead of diesel.
    • jcranmer 1y ago
      Moving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built. The statistic I like to use is that the train tunnels underneath the Hudson River into Manhattan move more people than all of the road crossings into Manhattan combined. It's probably cheaper in the long run to invest in better regional rail systems than it is to to keep widening highways; people drastically underestimate the costs of highway construction.
      • xnx 1y ago
        > Moving self-driving vehicles requires billions of dollars of new roads to be built. I haven't heard this. Wouldn't self driving cars use the same road infrastructure we already have?
        • jcranmer 1y ago
          The same infrastructure that people often complain is inadequate to the task? Self-driving vehicles are also going to come with the innovation of having zero occupants as they navigate somewhere to park. And if people want to replace existing mass transit systems with self-driving vehicles, that's going to require a lot more infrastructure.