No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    9 个月前

    A taxi, you mean like a car? You mean like the Waymo taxi that was trashed?

    Yes. I never said that those things have no place.

    We’re discussing how there are people in the country who don’t own tractors.

    Then either they should have a bus station in walking distance or be covered by a collect taxi service.

    Because self driving cars have the potential to be safer and less dangerous than human drivers. Waymo’s safety record is already better than the average human on a per mile basis.

    The average human is not a good driver. You have to compare performance, and not just safety but also route efficiency, flexibility to unforseen events etc. not against the average driver, but professional taxi drivers.

    The people who work those jobs, also live out in the country.

    Why the fuck don’t they live at the farm. What’s it with USians trying to make everything as hard for themselves as possible.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 个月前

      Yes. I never said that those things have no place.

      Then why trash an autonomous taxi?

      Then either they should have a bus station in walking distance or be covered by a collect taxi service.

      Lol. You do not understand the distances involved.

      The average human is not a good driver. You have to compare performance, and not just safety but also route efficiency, flexibility to unforseen events etc. not against the average driver, but professional taxi drivers.

      Until we live in your made up fantasy world where the only drivers allowed on the road are professionals, then sure. But we’re not, we’re discussing real world performance today.

      Why the fuck don’t they live at the farm.

      Because they’re not farmers, try and keep up with the conversation.

      What’s it with USians trying to make everything as hard for themselves as possible.

      I’m not American, and it took literally thousands of years of development to turn Europe into what it is today, so maybe try and have some perspective on the feasibility of your “solutions”.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        9 个月前

        Then why trash an autonomous taxi?

        You mean why did homeless people trash an autonomous taxi? I’d say because inner-city liberal techbros care more about fancy tech toys than providing stuff that people actually need, such as shelter and healthcare. At least that’s the usual logic of riots and vandalism.

        Why the fuck don’t they live at the farm.

        Because they’re not farmers, try and keep up with the conversation.

        So if you work at a farm, but are not a farmer, you can’t live there? You are legally required to have a 20km commute based on a law to preserve the integrity of farm life or something? What kind of bullshit is that.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          You mean why did homeless people trash an autonomous taxi?

          Uh, you can watch the video, it wasn’t homeless people.

          So if you work at a farm, but are not a farmer, you can’t live there? You are legally required to have a 20km commute based on a law to preserve the integrity of farm life or something? What kind of bullshit is that.

          Again we’re not talking about people who work on farms. We’re talking about people who work in farming communities in jobs that are necessary to support farmers. Most of them don’t even work on a single farm but service multiple farms. Stop trying to act like you understand country life well enough to reshape it, you’re just as arrogant as every European colonizer before you.

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            9 个月前

            Uh, you can watch the video, it wasn’t homeless people.

            Elsewhere in the thread someone who knows the city well better than me (or probably you) said that it’s an area known for mobile home encampments. Yes, that’s homelessness, even if it’s upper class homeless.

            Again we’re not talking about people who work on farms. We’re talking about people who work in farming communities in jobs that are necessary to support farmers. Most of them don’t even work on a single farm but service multiple farms.

            So your electricians etc. which I already said have their commercial vehicles which don’t fall under individual transport. They’re also lugging means of production around.

            I invite you again to imagine city roads without commuters. That single change, and nothing else. It’s like 98% of traffic in car-dependent cities.

            Merging the threads because I’m getting tired of it:

            So now every technology improvement needs to solve every single systemic problem or it’s not worth pursuing?

            No. Use autonomous technology if you want. Just don’t hail it as the silver bullet it isn’t when there’s much more deep as well as tried and true solutions to the issues we have. You’re taking attention away from the actual solutions in favour of gadgetry unaffordable for most which need to drive in places like the US. Pedestrians won’t be safe no matter how good the tech becomes, as long your average burger flipper still needs a car to get to work and can’t afford that fancy stuff there’s going to be distracted commuters out there. You could get all of them off the street, pretty much instantly, by having proper public transit.

            Oh wow, the literal millions of road deaths every year are now “nothing of relevance”.

            Millions of road deaths which don’t need autonomous technology to severely curtail. Have a look at statistics US vs. Netherlands.

            No they’re not. Not for the distances covered in many rural areas. Try and wrap your brain around the fact that not everywhere is Europe where there’s millions of people packed into a postage stamp.

            Not many pedestrians out there getting run over either, though, are there? Yes of course if you live 100km away from the next power pole you’ll need some form of individual transportation, but you’re also statistically insignificant.

            You literally quote the answer to that:

            Again, you’d still have a delivery person for critical deliveries, they just wouldn’t be driving.

            So how do you push a car out of the way with your fire truck if you aren’t driving?

            • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              9 个月前

              Elsewhere in the thread someone who knows the city well better than me (or probably you) said that it’s an area known for mobile home encampments. Yes, that’s homelessness

              It was in Chinatown during a Chinese New Year’s celebration. I’m done with this conversation. You seem to want to believe that the rest of the world will magically densify into Europe faster than we’ll develop self driving cars that are safer than human drivers.

              Good luck! I mean that earnestly, because it would be a better future, but I also don’t mean it remotely earnestly because that’s not how the world works and that’s not going to happen. That’s a problem that is solved on a generational timescale. Self driving cars is a couple decade timescale.

              • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                9 个月前

                LA urban area is a bit more dense (2888pop/km2) than Hamburg (2506) your objection is completely nonsensical: Having more space between cities doesn’t mean that your cities must suck. The difference is that one is a couple of high rises and then endless car-dependent single-home sprawl, while the other is almost entirely stuff that’s illegal to build in the US. Changing building codes to allow such uses wouldn’t just solve their housing crisis, it would also densen up suburbia to allow for rail-based public transport. Plop down stations, zone a radius around them as medium density, also make sure have a grocery store, doctor’s practice, daycare, cafe and restaurant there, crucially no car parking – but make space for cargo bikes so that suburbanites within the catchment area but outside of walking distance can use all that infrastructure. You won’t recognise the city in 10 years, it’d totally transform, very much for the better.

                • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                  1·
                  9 个月前

                  You won’t recognise the city in 10 years, it’d totally transform, very much for the better.

                  Bruh, it takes ~10 years to plan and build a single major infrastructure project in America. Again, the timelines you’re talking about are nonsensical. Yes, building out transit and reorienting communities like that is the ultimate solution, but the idea that that will happen so much and so extensively that we’ll have no need for autonomous cars in even 20 years is absolutely absurd and detached from reality.

                  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                    2·
                    9 个月前

                    That kind of stuff is already happening and often on much shorter time-frames.

                    Salt Lake city went from rough political discussions in the early 90s, starting at literally zero, with practically no prior art in the US, and finished its first tram line in 1999, a year ahead of schedule of two-year construction, it’s since been expanded a lot. If you bring on experts who know their stuff (probably from abroad because you can’t really study public transit in the US, universities haven’t caught up yet) you can get the first wheels on the track in 2-3 years, thereabouts. In those 20 years you’re talking about Salt Lake City built a network spanning most of the valley.

                    One crucial mistake they didn’t do is trying to re-invent the wheel: They invited European experts, ultimately had Stadler build the trams which they’re doing in Salt Lake City (some parts still come from Switzerland) and now they’ve got a new industry in town, building e.g. FLIRTs for TexRail.

                    That’s probably all news to you, presumably because the techbro scene isn’t interested in things actually moving forward, what you’re interested in is jerking off to gadgetry, not public transport. It’s not “I’m interested in public transport, therefore I like autonomous cars”, it’s “Autonomous cars are cool, let’s find ways to shoehorn them into everything”.

                    So, gain: Please tell me how you’re going to make it so that burger flippers can afford those autonomous cars within 20 years. Tech won’t solve that issue. Public transport circumvents it completely.