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They just keep reinventing trains except shittier.

It's always trains

"Trains, but without the tracks."

They're not really trying to do anything. They're trying to get venture capital money. The more impressive and revolutionary the blender render is, the more likely they are to get some fat, unsecured VC money. Then they'll cash out and move on to the next thing.

It's a grift. They just need the poors to be excited about their bullshit to convince someone with money that there's money to be made with their bullshit.

They insist on recreating everything in modern society from first principles, rather than just learning from the past.

They can't just accept that X is a bad idea, and we know this because we fucking tried it several times. That's why we do Y, even though it might seem counterintuitive. They just need to go through it themselves, and fuck the people whose lives are ruined in the process. Collateral damage. To learn something that we already fucking know and have been telling them

Several years back there was a startup?, I think, that tried to revolutionize rail traffic with autonomous wagons that intelligently form wagontracks with decentralized coordination. The question, how they would coordinate between all the local rulings and different track designs, was answered with 'There is data for that to use and everyone will restructure for their glorious idea' - safe to say they didn't went viral

There's more to it than that, you also have to decelerate now and then

I have to go, I've said too much

That basically how trains work in Copenhagen. They use small, automated trains that come every couple of minutes. You just wander to the station and get on, no planning or anything.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GzamwVH3CXU

And also has a station at my house.

The only way to solve the self driving cat issue is to ban all human drivers from the road.

...and cyclists, and pedestrians, and farm tractors, and horses, and wagons, and stray pets, and wildlife, and...

Giving everybody a self-driving car completely defeats the purpose. Human-driven cars spend about 23 hours of each day just sitting around. A car that can drive itself doesn't need to spend any time being parked - it can provide another ride! Liberally assuming a self-driving car would need to spend a full half of its time (12 hours/day) charging or being serviced, that would still mean that replacing all cars with autonomous vehicles could reduce traffic volume by a theoretical limit of 12× (12 hours/day/vehicle vs. 1 hour/day/vehicle).

My hope has always been that if self driving cars are successful, almost nobody will own a personal car.

Cars are massively wasteful. Put aside the idea you're hauling around multiple tonnes of steel and glass frequently to just move one person. Ignore the pollution aspect too. They're also wasteful because they're used for maybe 2 hours per day, and the other 22 they just sit somewhere taking up space and getting rusty.

Just think about how many stationary cars you pass when you're out in the world. Nobody's getting any use out of them, they're just sitting there in case they're needed, meanwhile they're taking up useful space. There are other potentially expensive things you only use for a short amount of time each day: say, a good kitchen knife. But, most of them are indoors where they're not exposed to the elements and deteriorating without being used.

In a future with self-driving cars, owning a car could be a luxury that enthusiasts could pay for, if it was worth it to them, but everybody else who needed a car could just rent a car for an hour or two.