“Think about it: no traffic jams.”
That’s the arrogance of the technologists talking, not the reality.
The largest cause of traffic jams is not accidents but the sheer congestion of how many drivers want to go in the same direction in the same area at the same time.
Believing that robotized cars can solve this is foolish nonsense.
The idea arrogantly assumes there is always a “better route to take” to avoid the traffic jam.
That is most frequently not the case. Most of the alternatives turn out to be either just as bad, or longer in distance, or “off-highway” - in other words stop signs and traffic lights as opposed to on highway”, or multiple delays involving multiple route changes to make the “alternate route” work, and n the end getting the driver “out of the congestion” but NOT getting the driver to their destination in any significantly greater time frame.
The technology has its greatest possible achievement of putting more people who were “going the same way” onto more routes without actually achieving the greatest desire of the drivers - less time spent getting to their destination.
Once people realize they are only fulfilling a need of the technologists and not their own, they’ll have their robots in their autos “uninstalled” and ask that the technologists be exiled to a land with no roads. Then the technologists will put themselves to work perfecting the individual air car - for their own needs, and they’ll be invited back. Next time they’ll work on what people need and not on what they simply want to prove to themselves but need the gullible people to pay for it.
“Believing that robotized cars can solve this is foolish nonsense”
Not at all.
Check out the videos of the Google driverless cars that have traveled hundreds of miles. It isn’t theory, it actually works.
Now if everyone had a self driving car, each car would coordinate with the others, safely increasing speed — just as metered lights on freeway on ramps do now.
This is American ingenuity at work.
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