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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Alphane_Moon to c/technology
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[โ€“] dinckelman 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because you can make every kind of excuse, when it comes to privately owner corporations, but you quickly run out of them, when improving public systems.

We've already seen it countless times, how the American government gives money to someone, to complete a project, but completely ignores any binding contracts, so all that money literally just goes into someone's pocket instead

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Corruption is a problem. It doesn't help that one of two major parties doesn't believe government can work, and they'll make every effort to prove it.

"See, if you don't give any funding to public transit it doesn't work. And if you gut the regulatory agencies, then there's all sorts of corruption. Better privatize it, and I have just the guy to sell it to."