Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn

IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Moneo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just fund public transportation instead :)

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Autopilot buses could use this too.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or just buld a tram that rides on rails. More effecient and no need to over engineer an autopilot system

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You have to lay tracks for a tram though, means changing the route isn’t that easy. Self-Driving buses would actually be more efficient since you could alter the route on a hourly basis if you wanted optimized by traffic and destinations required.

        All that could be easily automated, but you lose that if you have a physical track you have to run along.

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, like a digital “ideal line” that the cars can follow.

  Maybe even a physical guiding line.

  We could even connect all the cars via WLAN (WiFi) to exchange info when they are braking and accelerating. That would increase efficiency.

  Maybe we could even connect them physically to have a stronger engine pulling more cars more efficiently.

  If we already have an ideal guiding line, we might actually save some asphalt and make the roads more optimised. Use different materials so the tyre particles don’t pollute as much.

  Ah, let’s just build a train.

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• FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t want to waste any more tax money trying to make one of the least effecient modes of transport more autonomous. Just build an electricrfied tram if thats what you want.

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  • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The United States is simply too large and distributed for everyone to use public transportation. It will never happen, so get used to it and try to optimize what will be part of our future.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The majority of trips people make are within their own city/local region. Thats where transit should be implemented first. Your country is not “too big” for transit

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      • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is too distributed in too many places for mass transit. The religious fervor over the fuck cars movement is not going to get people in highly populated, low density areas to walk a mile to catch a bus to catch a train full of homeless people to catch another bus to walk a half mile to their destination, when they could have completed that same journey in the comfort of their own car in 1/4 of the time.

        Take Dallas for instance. I’m not going to do the work for you, but feel free to plan a trip from a random house in Allen, TX to a business 5-10+ miles away using both the public transit system and then a car. No one sane with limited time in their day is opting for the public transit option. And this is in a city with a decent passenger rail system.

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• eronth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eventually a great idea, but that’s not rolling out particularly soon.

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