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White background meme with the text “People want to build a massive connected network of driverless cars to ‘solve’ traffic. Doesn’t that sound a bit like giving SkyNet control of all the nukes?”

There are illustrative images of the proposed “network of driverless cars” as well as a menacing image of a terminator robot and an image from a news report about a deadly crash caused by a self-driving Uber.

  • OldWoodFrameEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I feel like we could do driverless buses right now if they had dedicated right of ways.

    That’s another two step item where we could do the first step because we feel good about the way the tech is trending, and even if the tech fails, oops we only made a better life for everyone with dedicated bus lanes.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I’d be down for this. Having the dedicated infrastructure would reduce the number of variables and allow the opportunity for sensors along the route for more checks so you don’t have to 100% rely on a black-box model. Plus, it solves one of the biggest operating expenses of buses (labor), which would make it much cheaper to run very high-frequency bus services.

      As a bonus point, you could make them trolleybuses, so if they do something too crazy, they just lose power and stop.