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Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

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306 points nharada | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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world2vec ◴[12 Nov 25 17:16 UTC] No.45902781[source]▶
An interesting prospect is that a bunch of autonomous cars on the freeways might have a meaningful impact in preventing traffic jams (specifically those "phantom jams") [0] simply by driving in a calm and pondered way always at a constant distance.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m74zazYPwkY&t=1860s

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1. smoovb ◴[12 Nov 25 23:28 UTC] No.45908390[source]▶
If it comes to pass that traffic jams are in large part due to poor human choices, that will bode poorly for the general populace to continue to be allowed to drive.

Flying used to be like this - my grandpa had 3 airplanes, used one to fly a calf back to his farm. But flying got regulated till it's quite rare to meet a casual pilot with his own plane.