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   sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:28:35 JST sidereal

   The only and sole advantage of a self driving car over a taxi is that you don't have to pay the driver.

   Everyone says "robocars will be able to outdrive humans" but like that's a theoretical future robocar. The existing ones actually just suck compared to an experienced cabbie.

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     sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:28:34 JST sidereal

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     They may eventually figure out the self-driving car technology, I'm of course open to being wrong, but I don't think it's going to be accomplished in an economical fashion anytime soon. Too many weird edge cases.

     As I never get sick of reminding people, for all of the 2010's, 2019 was supposed to be the year self driving cars took over. Uber and Lyft hedged their entire bets on robocars being practically available by 2019 and have been frantically expanding the uber-eats services ever since.

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     sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:28:34 JST sidereal

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     Like maybe we should have left urban planning to the urban planners and tech brodom to the tech bros.

     Bus Rapid Transit systems are so much cooler than self driving cars could ever be. You will never convince me otherwise.