Hacker News Reader

Comment by soligern | Hacker News Reader

Suffer what? A traffic jam on some day in a major city? That’s a pathetic bar to set for what a city can stomach with what well running autonomous taxis can mean for the future. Massive potential savings in greenhouse emissions, 24/7 on demand and reliable transport, efficient route planning preventing traffic jams, massive reduction in deaths caused by traffic accidents etc.

View on HN

Right tell that to the people who have crashed and been horribly mutilated or killed from unexpected traffic jams or ambulances or fire trucks that can’t get through because of unexpected traffic.

It’s not like regular traffic where everyone knows this part of the road is jammed up at this specific time range if the cars are just locking up in random areas.

People have been killed for decades by traffic jam negligence. Another freeloader making an entire jam is just pointing out how wrong it is to let dangerous private property have unlimited use of public streets for free.

Fwiw I feel much safer as a biker and pedestrian around Waymo cars compared to typical drivers in San Francisco.

They always yield in a reasonable way to bikers, they are never suddenly swerving to the right without signaling, etc.

> Massive potential savings in greenhouse emissions, 24/7 on demand and reliable transport, efficient route planning preventing traffic jams, massive reduction in deaths caused by traffic accidents etc.

or we could just use a train

Yeah generally relying on massive cultural change to accomplish your policy goals is going to be a loser.

Most people dislike trains and are honestly afraid of them (unreasonably so) in cities.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com