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There's some precedent for other unattended things like rental scooters. If it becomes a nuisance for the police, they may choose to ignore self-driving car vandalism.
Scooters are like $150 a piece. These six-figure cars. Doubt that gets ignored.
Great, more autonomous murder bots. Maybe when there are enough of them, society will say "enough is enough".
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> That's a funny way to say the next biggest place with 300 days of sun per year. Why does that matter?
Self driving cars don’t work in rain/snow
This will be interesting to see if they can crack LA - drunk and overly aggressive drivers, crack addicts running around the streets, and vandalism. You can already see this "tragedy of the commons" type of behavior with the unusable public transport system (it's a nightmare to use the trains between Koreatown and DTLA, especially for women) and in the private sector with Lime and Bird scooters. Very exciting if it w…
You’re essentially blaming “elements of sin:” it’s all about the crackheads and the crazies.
You’re magnifying a very small portion of the population while diminishing and disrespecting the mostly-normal law-abiding citizens who actually live in LA.
You want to know why LA has drunk drivers and scary bad transit? It’s not because of all of the vague sin of the “city problems” you describe.
It’s at least in part because of LA’s unsustainable car-focused development. (In that respect, Waymo might act as a welcome band-aid, but it’s still a band-aid).
Why are there drunk drivers? Because you can’t walk or take a train/bus to the bar.
Why is transit scary? Because only the truly desperate actually use the barely-useful mass transit in LA, because LA was built for cars.
Why are the crackheads out vandalizing stuff? Maybe because car-focused development exacerbates wealth inequality [1] by encouraging the development of socioeconomically segregated communities, and by gating economic opportunity behind the most expensive form of transportation, requiring everyone to buy and maintain personal vehicles at high rates (at least one vehicle per person). Don’t have your own car? Hope someone can drive you to work! Want to interview for that job? It’s far away, hope you can pay for gas! Disabled? Elderly? Guess you’re not going anywhere!
[1] https://inequality.org/research/public-transit-inequality/
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Self driving cars don’t work in rain/snow
...yet. I think Waymo's approach of launching the service in the cities when it is easy first, and over time expanding to more troublesome climates is much more sensible than Tesla's "humans can do it, so AI should be able to, with just cameras".
Is there a fundamental answer to this question? Start with low-hanging fruit and then build up? Or begin with the most challenging bits before gliding forward? The risk with the former is you end up in a dead end. The risk with the latter, finding the hard problems intractable without the experience of solving the easier ones.
Great, more autonomous murder bots. Maybe when there are enough of them, society will say "enough is enough".
in a similar line of reasoning, cars by humans are a much larger problem that's already here
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Then they get recorded and dealt with by the law just like burning any random parked car.
To be frank, especially for anyone who hasn't lived in LA, the LAPD doesn't do anything for the public unless it's something involving guns and/or gangs. It's not unlike how developers mark most bugs as "won't fix". I've seen active break-ins and robberies in LA, and called the police only to have nothing being done in those situations. While anecdotal, I'm afraid this is a really common experience that has only gott…
Very exciting news, as more people use autonomous vehicles, the less parking needs there will be and hopefully more parking lots can be reclaimed with plant life, that benefits the whole earth with better air and calming energy.
Imagine a jogging track and a cycling track that runs all through the city. I'd never get inside a car!