So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.

Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.

This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!

And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h...

It will be beautiful (/s)

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[–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

It's not a thought experiment in my head. It's a highly studied and demonstrated fact. And it doesn't require bumper to bumper cars, it requires cars consistently traveling with safe breaking distance, something humans didn't do.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I don't refute that. I agree that far too many humans are far too comfortable with unsafe following distances.That's not the claim you made though:

    Traffic is solely due to human error

    And as I said, it's just simply not true. Congestion happens because car traffic does not scale or recover from disturbances efficiently. Human behavior exacerbates this, sure, but cars are just fundamentally bad at moving people when a road is at capacity. Chalking traffic it up to "human error" alone misses the forest for the trees.

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