Why Self-Driving Taxis are a Terrible Idea

Jeff Bezos will fix traffic for you. As long as you are an upper middle class twat living in a gated community.

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[bobmanperson]

"This is not a car, this is a vehicle" gives off the same energy as "I'm not driving, I'm traveling."

[Zectifin]

"what if you could have a bus, but didn't have to sit next to the poors?"
-amazon

[somegeese]

At the beginning of the pandemic, the city bus where i live became free, and they never went back. Amazon is gonna have a hard time beating "free"

[Erritiguei]

My favorite part of these videos is when he says "I am going to modify these ideas to make them work" then describes a train and/or bicycle. I know it's coming every time and i love it

[tonatiuhl.]

Nature: everything can evolve to become a crab
Adam: Everything can evolve to become a train

[FirstLast-cgnk]

It still amazes me that modern public transit ideas involve transiting as little of the public as possible.

[notever_everytime]

I live in San Francisco, home base for Uber, Lyft, and all of the test autonomous vehicle companies. For the first eight years of Uber's operations, their mapping system consistently told my drivers to drive off the cliff a block away from my house to get to the Embarcadero, the main roadway on the eastern shore of the city. This was despite numerous reports by both residents and drivers, for years on end. Now these sorts of companies want me to get into unmanned vehicles with no override, because they totally pinky swear AI will not drive me off a cliff / into the sea / into other vehicles / over pedistrians' bodies? Uh, no.

[Chairemy]

I hadn’t considered letting my dog shit in a self driving taxi until you said ALL of them. Challenge accepted

[carvoloco]

If people own stuff, how are corporations going to charge them indefinitely for subscriptions?

[livelongandtroll]

"It is so dumb, in fact, that even Elon Musk came up with it some time a go"

Brutal

[pylonialwaffles]

Some company: 'We're reinventing the wheel.'
*their wheel is square*

[HiIIzRelliking]

Nothing puts a smile on my face faster than Adam saying "Let me make some suggestions..." knowing exactly where he's going

[jon]

The core issue with this is that the idea isn't "we don't want you to be dependent on cars", its "we want you to be dependent on *our* cars instead".

All the downsides of car centric transport with none of the upsides of owning a private vehicle.

[gyroscope]

" This is not a car, its a vehicle"
Is some hard core sovereign citizen bullshit

[mckorr]

Amazon can't even find my house for deliveries, why would I trust them to get a robotaxi to it?

[Adriethyl]

The "scalable" thing immediately reminded me of the million other "we reinvented the train but its not actually a train and it has all the downsides of the car" cash grabs lmao

[DecMurphy]

Remember kids, public services should be publicly owned.

[memelord]

100% agree with the statement that we will never have full self driving. Computers thrive on predictability, humans thrive on adaptability.

[Lazysupermutant]

As an autistic I am heavily in favor of adding more trains! Lets break out the art deco, wild west aestics man. We're in the roaring 20s again, so why not?

[daemonspudguy]

Imagine a transit idea being so unrelentingly awful that not even Elon Musk wants to touch it. I didn't even know that it was possible to stoop to levels that low.