• DdCno1@beehaw.orgOP
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    2 months ago

    How would self-driving taxis do this any better than taxis that already exist and aren’t relying on large tech corporations?

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      2 months ago

      Cheaper, safer and one extra seat.

      We’re obviously not there yet but I haven’t heard a single good argument for why we wouldn’t be in the future.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think they’d do much better besides being safer, eventually. Just saying that’s the only place where they’d make sense to go.

      Edit: giving it a bit more thought, they should also have greater passenger capacity for their size

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        1 month ago

        If safer is a realistic outcome, perhaps things would further evolve. Ride share cars today are dual-use vehicles that typically carry driver + no passenger or driver + one passenger with the capacity for 3-5. If future autonomous ride share cars turn out to be dedicated to ride share, maybe most would end up being 3-wheel with just one or two seats. Shrinking the size of a substantial potion of cars on urban roads could be beneficial to road safety, power/carbon intensity, road capacity/density (which could also lead to more equitable road use for bikes and pedestrians).