Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco

Post by jen20 » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:30 AM UTC

bko wrote: post #41

ryukafalz wrote: post #29

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> Cities cannot easily be "redesigned". Tell that to Jersey City: https://youtu.be/1mC1l8L5aBA Transport infrastructure in cities absolutely can be redesigned quickly, if you’re willing to take a quick and dirty approach in the short term. Which is usually enough when it comes to influencing people’s behavior; it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be functional and feel safe.

You're talking about adding bike lanes. That's cool I guess but you still need a car for every day life. Not everyone is a young single person that can just go to a food co-op every few days, throw some organic produce in their backpack and ride home.

Post by unnouinceput » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:31 AM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #139

synicalx wrote: post #105

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> "Just imagine how safe driving will be when every vehicle is FSD and can talk to one another," Some genius 10x'er forgets to carry the 1 or something, and all of a sudden an entire city full of cars all collide with pedestrians all at once.

We could have the same fear with all these satellites being shot up into space. Couldn't they all start raining down on earth with some poor calculations or coding mistakes in the course-correction software? I don't know enough about this stuff to know if this is a realistic thing or just the premise of a bad sci-fi movie.

Post by offsign_p » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

azov wrote: post #114

37ef_ced3 wrote: post #92

From a customer's perspective, it isn't clear that a software taxi driver is in any way better than a human taxi driver, particularly with (human) driver assist preventing collisions and all the other warnings provided by a modern car. In both cases someone else is driving for the customer. With a human driver (plus driver assist braking and collision warnings) you have the most flexible, sophisticated intelligence o…

> The robotaxi can only compete on price because that's its only advantage. With robotaxi you get a driver that: - never gets tired - never gets distracted - never gets drunk - never gets upset - never falls asleep - has reaction time in milliseconds - ... Of course it has tons of problems of its own, but it's not like price is the only advantage over human driver.

Post by driverdan » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:37 AM UTC

Post by sosodev » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

johndfsgdgdfg wrote: post #129

Why Google is allowed to run a robotaxi service in megacity is beyond me. Google invades its users privacy and keeps users hostages for money. What can one expect from a company like Google when it runs a service in physical world? Something very harmful to humanity.