> AI driven cars have better risk profiles than humans.
From which company? I hope you say "Waymo", because Tesla is lying through its teeth and hiding crash statistics from regulators.
From which company? I hope you say "Waymo", because Tesla is lying through its teeth and hiding crash statistics from regulators.
I personally believe widely available self-driving cars which don't operate at a loss will continue to elude us until we accept the tradeoffs of dedicated lanes, a standardized vehicle-to-vehicle communication protocol, and roadside sensors. We were lied to.
And self-driving minibuses would basically provide 95% of the benefits of self-driving buses. They could offer 24/7 frequent service with huge coverage, we already have dedicated bus lanes in many places (and we could scale dedicated bus lanes much faster than dedicated self-driving car lanes), etc.
Now, I understand that in many places (especially the US) this is infeasible because public anything = communism.
To be fair to the anti-train crowd, we've been led so far down this disastrous path of car-led sprawl that the hope of even building feasible buses that can reach into the byzantine suburbs is unlikely.
So, maybe our best hope is self-driving EVs? At least in our lifetimes.