Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months agoEven in an ideally car-free society, you will literally never be able to get rid of taxis, deliveries, moving large furniture / household items, etc. without some form of enclosed motorized transportation (a car for the purposes of this discussion).
That’s not individual transportation. None of it. But now that you mention it: Do imagine how your cities would look like if those were the only vehicles on the roads.
If we make machines that are safer than humans than yeah, it will.
Malaria might be less severe than the black death still doesn’t mean I want to catch it.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Well the don’t shift goal posts to “individual transportation” when we’re talking about people thrashing a self driving car.
They didn’t trash a gas guzzler.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can do automated taxis, deliveries and moving services, not so much.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You can still automate the driving part of moving and delivery services, which is the dangerous part.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
No. Not securing loads is the dangerous part. You need a human in there anyway and with the current sorry state of driving automation best you can do is have them browse the delivery list while the car is handling a traffic jam.
There’s a reason you don’t see the likes of UPS or DHL get into automated cars, but venture capital moonshot tech companies promising nonsense on the one hand, as well as traditional car manufacturers with way more reasonable claims. IIRC Audi is actually leading the pack.
And it’s not like UPS or DHL know nothing about vehicles, they’re driving custom orders. DHL even was a manufacturer for some time.