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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board (futurism.com)
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"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, "You couldn't pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere."

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "never having to drive again."

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "never having to drive again."

Did they not heard about public transport or it doesn't count because it isn't choke-full of fancy tech and isn't pushed by techbro?(it is choke-full of fancy tech but never pushed by techbro)

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Public transit in the US simply isn’t good enough in many cases. Years ago I lived in a suburb north of Boston and worked in another suburb west of Boston. It was about a 40 minute drive during rush hour. Trying to do that same commute by public transit likely would have taken me 4+ hours and involved a bus to a subway into Boston followed by a commuter train and another bus. It would have been a nightmare.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Like the point is, if people are giving a "this thing isn't good enough now but will be great in the future" for this lobotaxi thing, they sure can give the same treatment to public transport as well. Of course it isn't great now, the government spend little to nothing on it to make it good. But what if people start pushing for more public transport development? It will be better in the future, everyone win.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, but that would require raising taxes, which the billionaires have convinced the masses is a terrible thing because socialism, and look where that’s gotten third world socialist countries.

    The only solution, according to the billionaires, and the brainwashed masses, is to give even more money to the billionaires so that they can privatize things even more and throw cutting edge technology at the problem instead of proven solutions like light rail, etc.

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