The math doesn’t work. Physics doesn’t work this way. Nothing scales like the proposed future of self driving cars. I know it was the vision of the 1950’s to have a personal vehicle for everyone, but there’s just no way to shoehorn the total volume of vehicles into a city based around people and people-scale areas. We’ve tried and all it does is make a dangerous, shitty, and unhealthy space with a single office building and miles of car storage around it.
This is just another money and power giveaway to Musk and the tech bros that bankrolled the campaign. The sheer scale of the damage it will cause to our cities is going to be generational, not to mention the damage to our planet’s greenhouse gas budget.
No no you don’t understand: the cars will simply drive themselves around which means they can just endlessly circle the block instead of parking, creating more traffic and wasting more energy… Shit where was I going with this
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I don’t disagree that damage would/will be done, but how much is the question. Money has already been allocated and contracts signed for public transportation improvement in my area. Could this be retroactively cancelled? I guess we’ll find out.
That’s because people are too lazy and cheap to build multi-story parking garages, not because a personal vehicle for everyone can’t work. If it wasn’t for environmental damage cars would be the objectively best choice because you can take multiple people and a lot of their stuff pretty much wherever you like at any time you please. There’s no point in pretending the bus is anything like as good as that, certainly not as things are now. The obvious solution is to just bring public transportation up as close to that as possible by having lots of service and all of it running 24 hours, but people act like they’d rather die, possibly because they’re imbeciles.
The math doesn’t work. Physics doesn’t work this way. Nothing scales like the proposed future of self driving cars. I know it was the vision of the 1950’s to have a personal vehicle for everyone, but there’s just no way to shoehorn the total volume of vehicles into a city based around people and people-scale areas. We’ve tried and all it does is make a dangerous, shitty, and unhealthy space with a single office building and miles of car storage around it.
This is just another money and power giveaway to Musk and the tech bros that bankrolled the campaign. The sheer scale of the damage it will cause to our cities is going to be generational, not to mention the damage to our planet’s greenhouse gas budget.
America still hasn’t recovered from all the public transport being torn up nearly a century ago
No no you don’t understand: the cars will simply drive themselves around which means they can just endlessly circle the block instead of parking, creating more traffic and wasting more energy… Shit where was I going with this
Nowhere because your Waymo car is stuck in a roundabout.
https://jalopnik.com/empty-waymo-robotaxi-loops-roundabout-37-times-as-if-it-1851721933
Nonsense! With a fleet of self-driving pods our valued customers can enjoy getting to work on time every time* with our premium packages starting at $399.99 /mo!
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I don’t disagree that damage would/will be done, but how much is the question. Money has already been allocated and contracts signed for public transportation improvement in my area. Could this be retroactively cancelled? I guess we’ll find out.
That’s because people are too lazy and cheap to build multi-story parking garages, not because a personal vehicle for everyone can’t work. If it wasn’t for environmental damage cars would be the objectively best choice because you can take multiple people and a lot of their stuff pretty much wherever you like at any time you please. There’s no point in pretending the bus is anything like as good as that, certainly not as things are now. The obvious solution is to just bring public transportation up as close to that as possible by having lots of service and all of it running 24 hours, but people act like they’d rather die, possibly because they’re imbeciles.