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In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.

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[–] Nioxic 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats still only a few people.. compared to a bus?

Why not just have a bus??

[–] monk 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I take the bus to work every day. It's a set route for my set work schedule and it's great.

But everything else I do in my life? Not on a bus route, schedules are slow on the weekend or stop completely after a certain time.

When you come up with a bus that goes wherever I want to go when I want, I'm in. Until then, a car that doesn't require a driver and is easily shared between many people to take them the last mile is an actual solution.

[–] aesthelete 3 points 1 year ago

Buses suck because they're like cars only worse.

Cars suck because of the amount of infrastructure you have to build for them all to avoid proper design of anything.

In a well designed area, you'd be able to get wherever you needed without having to take either of these things.

[–] fluxion -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] elscallr 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean like a self driving Uber?

[–] fluxion -1 points 1 year ago

Why is that necessary?