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Why do you think it's not an improvement over tiny vehicles used by only one person ever? A single Waymo can replace multiple private vehicles.
by JasonADrury 10mo ago
Why do you think it's not an improvement over tiny vehicles used by only one person ever? A single Waymo can replace multiple private vehicles.
- 1970-01-01 10mo agoYou could also create virtual paths, whereby you're heading north in one Waymo until say 38th street, and then you hop out and grab another waiting for you in just 30 seconds. Now you move east for 5 more blocks and arrive home without fiddling around at any other stops or stations.
- JasonADrury 10mo agoSure, and you could totally do this with multiple passengers at a time too. You could even profile your passengers to avoid any unpleasant partner choices, restrict this to specific hours, etc. You could even design vehicles for transporting multiple individual passengers in totally separate spaces. There are endless improvements to the status quo you can achieve with self driving vehicles, things which will simultaneously improve quality of life for literally everybody.
- idontwantthis 10mo agoIt can replace multiple private vehicles sitting at home doing nothing. Moving individuals in individual vehicles cannot replace individual vehicles moving individual people on the road at one time.