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A bunch of automated cars appearently blocked traffic somewhere.
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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I'm still not even a little bit convinced that automated cars is going to work any time soon. In many cases I think they are actually making things worse and more dangerous.
Maybe if we manage to standardize every single road in the country so there aren't any weird exceptions, but I still think it would only be viable on highways. I can't see a future where I'll be able to sit in my driveway and press a button to go to work and then be able to let the car take me all the way there without my input.
We should be investing all this time, energy and engineering into public transport such as metros and other light rail. Tear out every single highway in the country and replace them with trains and train stations. I can bike a mile to a train station instead.
But if we invested this in public spaces and services then how would private companies milk profit out of our citizens' need to travel?