ultracycling!@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.
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 @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. |
@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.