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What would be an example city? Waymo just announced they're ramping up in Boston: https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-back-to-boston https://waymo.com/blog/?mod
by xnx 9mo ago
What would be an example city? Waymo just announced they're ramping up in Boston: https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-back-to-boston https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-back-to-boston
"we’re excited to continue effectively adapting to Boston’s cobblestones, narrow alleyways, roundabouts and turnpikes."
- ginko 9mo agoNot grandparent but I was rather thinking of medieval city centers in Italy or Spain. edit: Case in point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxYQWHrzSMES8HPL8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxYQWHrzSMES8HPL8 This is an alley in Coimbra, Portugal. A couple years ago I stayed at a hotel in this very street and took a cab from the train station. The driver could have stopped in the praça below and told me to walk 15m up. Instead the guy went all the way up then curved through 5-10 alleys like that to drop me off right right in front of my place. At a significant speed as well. It was one of the craziest car rides I've ever experienced.
- stackedinserter 9mo agoDo we really need FSD cars (any cars, actually) in medieval city centers?
- pants2 9mo agoAny small city in Italy is going to be 10X more challenging than Boston
- threetonesun 9mo agoDepends, which is harder: a narrow street or a three lane one with no obvious lane markers with people double parking?
- micromacrofoot 9mo agoand the failure mode for some of them are steep drops off of cliffs
- chasd00 9mo agothe absolute chaos of Paris would also be challenging.
- zhengyi13 9mo agoVarious European cities come to mind: Narrow streets are something of a trope in certain movies/genres.
- jkaptur 9mo agoTo be fair, many of those films do not portray human drivers in the best light.