ultracycling!@CIMB4 @notjustbikes this comes across as pretty extreme, for example can you imagine NYC or any big cities without any taxis at all? Why can't we have great transit and taxis both? Maybe the video will explain but I don't have high hopes
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 @gogojack @semitones There was a short story in the New Yorker a few years ago about ways in which self driving taxis could go wrong. The problems wouldn’t be the same as now but there a plenty. See also the MIT paper on the gridlock that taxis that roam when they are empty to avoid parking fees would cause. @MartyFouts @semitones My job is to deal with those problems. There are challenges, to be sure, but mostly it's hours of boredom because the cars are so competent. I compare it to the time I was doing traffic reports for radio stations. The number of accidents that happen every day in a major metropolitan area is staggering. If i wasn't a fatality or a major road closure I had to skip it because there just wasn't time to report everything. @gogojack @semitones You might want to read the story. The problems in it are not the technical stuff that you deal with but rather the social consequences. @semitones @CIMB4 @notjustbikes I can, as I have spent time in cities with good transit. But soon I won’t have to because many European cities, led by Paris, are becoming completely car free, at least in their central districts.  |
@semitones I will also give the video a watch, but - and full disclosure I work in the AV industry - a robo-taxi is so much better than a traditional cab or Uber. You don't have to worry about your "driver" being tired, or distracted, or just an irresponsible inattentive person whose last driving instruction was 30 years ago.
Plus you'll never hear "young woman attacked by robo-taxi driver late at night." They're clean, reliable, and very, very safe.