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LinkPizza posted...

Making it less cost effective, as 2 or 3 of those would cost more than one bus...

If it's less cost effective, why are municipalities already putting them into service?

(For the record, new buses cost about half a million dollars just to purchase, and that's not covering the costs of the driver and insurance, fees that a self-driving bus wouldn't need to worry about).

LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. I rather not fall when another choice where people can be happy is a choice. Why should we have to fall as a species because people are greedy and cant think about the rest of us for one fucking second instead of only themselves? We shouldnt have to.

Whether we should or shouldn't have to doesn't matter. We do.

This technology is here and it's not going away. Crying about how unfair it is or how it shouldn't be a thing is going to get you absolutely nowhere.

That's sort of like me saying, "We shouldn't have smartphones - it makes it so people expect to be able to get a hold of you at any time. We can't have a moment to ourselves anymore!"

That's a) True and b) Also completely irrelevant, because smart phones aren't going to disappear, so we may as well figure out how to deal with it.

LinkPizza posted...

And I sure hope its nowhere near commonplace in 10 years.

It will be.

The first iPhone launched in 2007; within a decade, they were everywhere.

Facebook went public in 2006; six years later, they got their 1,000,000,000th user.

Modern tablets first surfaced about 10 years ago; now they're as common as computers were in the 90s.

A decade is roughly how long it takes new tech to achieve market penetration and the clock is already ticking on self-driving vehicles. And honestly? You're overlooking the good side of these. Self-driving autos could solve traffic and drop accidents to near-zero. They singlehandedly could help fight global warming by simply being far, far more efficient than human drivers. Hell, the idea of owning your own car may one day become a thing of the past (if you think about it, 90% of the time your car just sits idle in a lot somewhere; if the car could go off and tend to other people when you're not using it, that would be far more efficient).
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