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Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot “experiments in public roads” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Suburbs and diffuse urban centers connected by highways are a consequence of cars, not the other way around. The US could have instead opted for public transport and densely packed services so a full shopping trip doesn't take you all the way around the state. Here in the UK I can just walk into town and all the things you need are an easy walk from each other,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In America walking from one store to another store 4 stores away could be an over half a mile long stroll.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Caused by minimum parking laws that we don't need. We could fix the problem by building our cities the way we used to before GM bought all the trolleys, and scrapped them, to sell more cars.