These incidents demonstrate that driverless cars are incapable of recognizing and responding to unusual situations. Reality is chaotic and there will always be unusual situations, and unusual situations with vehicles put peoples’ lives at risk. The cost is too high, the benefit too low.
It surprises me that fixed route buses, like the model talked about here, aren’t taking off faster.
We already have those, they’re called buses. This thing reminds me of those projects that reinvent trains but shittier. Instead of investing in this kind of nonsense we should be improving public transit infrastructure. If we need to add more bus routes we should just do that.
Then you haven’t been paying attention to the reality:
These incidents demonstrate that driverless cars are incapable of recognizing and responding to unusual situations. Reality is chaotic and there will always be unusual situations, and unusual situations with vehicles put peoples’ lives at risk. The cost is too high, the benefit too low.
We already have those, they’re called buses. This thing reminds me of those projects that reinvent trains but shittier. Instead of investing in this kind of nonsense we should be improving public transit infrastructure. If we need to add more bus routes we should just do that.
And frankly, the current state of the technology has been massively overhyped.