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Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worse::px-captcha

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[–] scarabic 2 points 1 year ago

Ridesharing apps could try to reduce the number of cars in the road but that would slow down their service. They can optimize anything they choose to, but right now they have been trying to flood the market with many drivers so rides are available quick with low prices. They don’t care about congestion or drivers. This is what you get.

The fact that more car rides happen with ridesharing should have been predictable, I guess. Suddenly car transport is available to people who can’t afford the high costs of keeping their own car in NYC. And it eliminates the parking problem.

[–] DarienGS 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Robotaxis could potentially help traffic by being smaller than current cars. The vast majority of journeys shouldn't require anything bigger than a Renault Twizy.

[–] Syreniac 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the one hand, you are right. On the other hand, will the consumers of robotaxis want to use small cars or will they push for full size ones?

[–] greavous 1 points 1 year ago

Don't give them an option....

[–] creditCrazy -2 points 1 year ago

Maybe because Im a car guy who enjoys driving but a self driving car is not only at best not even fixing car dependency but at least with a conventional car I can shift self driving cars I see being extremely boring to use there's a reason why I always use my bike for my daily commute and my car as a weekly whip and the country side

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