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Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Maybe instead of trying to train an AI powered car to deal with the insane chaos that is the road system, what if we designed something to remove that chaos? Maybe like a path that's just for these self driving cars. There's a network of paths to get you to your final destination.

But if we did that, there'd still be our current problems of running out of fuel, or battery power. Which could be solved by electrifying those paths.

But it'd be very difficult to have each of those individual cars switch between paths. Maybe it would be easier if instead of the cars switching paths, the people switched paths. Maybe we just make really long cars, and numerous people can get in them, and then switch cars as needed. People would need to know where to switch between these long cars. So we'd want to set schedules of when they're running to where, and then have an app or something that just told you where to get on and off.

And if they're really long, maybe we could kickstart this before we have self-driving abilities anyway. We could just have one person in the front driving it.

And maybe to reduce the need for rubber, instead of regular wheels on a road, they could just be metal wheels on metal tracks.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I saw the train conclusion coming from "a network of paths to reach your destination."

I do think that rail is a great solution to a lot of modern transportation needs.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Thanks but not thanks, most people on the public transport are disgusting and weird... Although I can live with that, they would need to have 24/7 schedules and insecurity is a big downside too.

Disclaimer, I actually don't know if trains work 24/7 as there is not a single one where I live (not for passengers at least) and even if there was insecurity still an issue, one of the disadvantages of living in a 3rd world country.