this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
445 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

60071 readers
4115 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
445
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
204 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not that hard and no you don’t need to re-do the whole country to make a massive impact. Making a random US city walkable would take like five years max if you actually set your mind to it.

And you'll still have drivers, and it will still be safer if they were autonomous.

one car getting replaced by one autonomous car is bullshit: It’s not self-driving that will address the systemic issues with transportation.

So now every technology improvement needs to solve every single systemic problem or it's not worth pursuing? That's your argument? Autonomous vehicles don't solve every transportation problem, they solve the problem of drivers regularly killing and maiming people.

I get being excited by a technology but it’s far from a silver bullet, on its own it addresses quite literally nothing of relevance.

Oh wow, the literal millions of road deaths every year are now "nothing of relevance".

As do collect taxis. Do I have to repeat that five times more.

No they're not. Not for the distances covered in many rural areas. Try and wrap your brain around the fact that not everywhere is Europe where there's millions of people packed into a postage stamp.

If someone wants to stop an ambulance the driver will go around them, or go out and curse their ass off until they move, or right-out push their car out of the way (because yes with blue lights on you have the right to ram, over here, the offending driver will be sent a bill for the repair of the ambulance and face criminal charges). Good luck teaching an AI to make those calls.

You literally quote the answer to that:

Again, you’d still have a delivery person for critical deliveries, they just wouldn’t be driving.