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

  • @mallocEnglish
    33•1 year ago

    Can’t read the article since it’s behind a paywall.

    Uber/Lyft and ride share companies in general put more cars on the road. Even worse, most of them just sitting idle waiting for the app to send them a fare (idling vehicles bad for environment).

    Robotaxis are no different. Most of them will just sit idle or drive around aimlessly until a rider(s) are assigned. If conditions are less than ideal, then they are often just found sitting until the conflict can be resolved.

    Witnessed multiple times where an automated car just sits at a light with hazards on because the light was broken due to recent power surge. Just 1 downed vehicle in a 3 lane road in downtown area caused significant traffic to pile up.

    I just want sane non-car centric infrastructure. Why is that so hard for this country to do? Need to undo this 1950s era of urban planning and transportation.

    • @[email protected]English
      18•1 year ago

      Need to undo this 1950s era of urban planning and transportation

      I was a kid when I saw it, but wasn’t that one of the end messages of the movie, Roger Rabbit?

      • Decoy321English
        15•1 year ago

        Correct. They were going to level Toon Town, or whatever it was called, to make room for a highway. I will never forget this scene because high pitched Christopher Lloyd was fucking terrifying when I first watched it as a kid.

        • TwoEnglish
          7•1 year ago

          Remember me, Eddie?

      • just another devEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        One more step Please complete the security check to access archive.md

        Unfortunately, archive.* turned into an endless amount of captchas for me in the past few months :(

        • @[email protected]English
          5•1 year ago

          Are you using cloudflare DNS? I was having that issue and when I switched from cloudflare DNS to opendns I stopped getting the captcha loop. It really makes no sense to me because those captcha pages were cloudflare ones.