ocktick t1_iueh1yz wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:38 PM

Reply to comment by StrudelStrike in Ford and VW Abandon the Self-Driving Road to Nowhere. Big story that with little fanfare by newleafkratom

Sure, if a train could take you everywhere that a car can then it would be amazing. I don’t think AVs are trying to solve the same problem as trains though.

fizzlefist t1_iueo3ra wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:25 PM

Well it’s hard to overcome a century of terrible car-centric city planning.

FruitbatNT t1_iufbh5l wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:01 PM

Woooo! Terrible car centric planning!!!

StrudelStrike t1_iuf0m7b wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:48 PM

If we’re going to completely rebuild the infrastructure to support AVs on roads, it would be dramatically more effective and ecologically friendly to replace them with trains, bus rapid transit, standard busses, bike paths, etc.

ocktick t1_iuf16my wrote on October 30, 2022 at 8:51 PM

Bike paths don’t work in climates unsuitable for biking for large parts of the year. And a train will never achieve the granularity of a vehicle. There are too many use cases where a vehicle needs to access an individual address for the solution to be “just do trains.” In terms of environment, AVs would be drastically more efficient since they could be shared. Again comparing it to rail is silly since a train will never deliver your sofa to your doorstep or wait for you to take your Costco haul of groceries inside.