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> that time sink might feel a bit more bearable if you could relax and do whatever you wanted during that time rather than focus on all the obstacles around you

We could use... trains & buses. Self-driving trains and buses!

But self-driving individual cars, because they will make the time more bearable, will induce even more driving, which is the opposite of what we want.

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Oh, I completely agree. This is big tech solving a problem for humans, but ignoring a larger problem for humanity.

To give the benefit of the doubt, my assumption is that they're solving it this way because the road infrastructure and market for cars already exists. You'd see big tech working on automating public transit if states actually started improving their public transit infrastructure.

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