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    I wouldn’t count on Tesla getting anything working properly to market any time soon.

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      It doesn’t need to work safely to be shoved out onto the roads. Especially when that’s what you’ve bought a presidency for…

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        So glad we are all unwilling participants in this great experiment. Pedestrians will be blamed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time when Tesla cans kill them.

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        The current state of FSD is that it’s a really nice driver aid, but it’s pretty far from being able to do anything beyond level 3

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    I’m not impressed until it can legally drive while it is snowing.

    Driving in mostly hot regions on predefined paths is not that impressive.

    But you know what fully automated system you could make in any weather? Trains.

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      I can’t take a train almost anywhere I drive. Think they’ll open a spur to:

      • The swamp down the road
      • My camp in BFE
      • Anywhere on the local creeks and rivers

      And can I bring a truck bed full of kayaks and gear? Oh, I also haul home shitloads of trash I find. Is that allowed on trains?

      Trains are the best for moving a human body, carrying nothing, from one population center to another. And that’s it.

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        I get your point, but your being a useless ass about it.

        For us that do outdoor sports we still will.need a car, but not having to use it to commute to work or go grocery shopping would be a wonderful thing

        Also the better transit is the fewer people you have to shard the road with when you do need to use your car.

        It’s not all or nothing.

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          You shop on a train ride? Don’t know about you, but I bring home more than 4 humans can carry.

          We obviously need train service between metro areas, and train service within large areas. But America is wired for individual transportation. Undoing that has a monstrous energy impact to consider, better, but it ain’t free.

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            I grocery shop basically every other day, means I only need a single bag at a time. I also happen to live across the street from the grocery store.

            This idea that groceries need to be bought in 18wheeler quantities sucks, but is because America can’t fathom being closer than 10 miles to any shopping.

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      I have tracks near my house that I could take to work, if they bothered to extend the line. There are some parts that need repair, but the land exists and the rails are largely unused for freight and mostly used to store extra cars. It goes right through most of the city centers in my area, and a large company has already promised to create a ton of jobs if the line is built. Oh, and there’s crazy congestion on the highway that runs parallel to these tracks, and these tracks go right next to two professional sports stadiums.

      So when are they starting construction? Not until 2050 at the earliest… Why? A handful of people in one small area of the line oppose it…

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    Uber / Lyft pay their drivers so poorly and continue to abuse US tipping culture so badly that drivers have to work crazy hours for any reasonable pay. This is now a hazard as it’s not uncommon to find drivers starting to fall asleep at the wheel. I welcome this technology but hope some better players emerge than these usual scumbags.

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      Zoox’s position is unfortunate because they basically had to sell themselves five years ago in order to keep operating. It takes extremely deep pockets to get this cutting-edge technology on the road while successfully navigating the winding roads of regulations and public trust.

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    How the fuck do you even pronounce Zoox? I swear the marketing departments are just mashing their keyboards at this point.

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    they all should be banned from public roads

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      Why? Wouldn’t it be expensive to build a whole new set of private roads everywhere for these?

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        they can do what they want and i hope they do waste a bunch of money building their own roads