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Posted on 06/30/2025 6:00:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Self-driving vehicles will take to the streets of Downtown Jacksonville on Monday as the city launches what it calls the first autonomous public transit system in the country.
Eight electric Ford vans will begin carrying passengers on a 3.5-mile loop between LaVilla and EverBank Stadium, driving themselves through traffic.
A Jacksonville Transportation Authority staffer will sit at the steering wheel, ready to take over if necessary.
The system is known as NAVI, short for Neighborhood Autonomous Vehicle Innovation. JTA has been testing the vehicles on the route since March, but the agency announced Friday that the system will begin serving the public Monday.
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What's wrong with this picture? SMH
Duval flushing money down the toilet ping!
As long as the staffer is temporary, to be eliminated after successful transition.
I’m guessing this is Jacksonville, FL and not Jacksonville, NC, or Jacksonville, OR.
Question to all you smart people on this forum ... how will this affect auto insurance rates?
But how many people stay alert when they're not needed most of the time? IMHO this could lead to dangerous complacency.
IMHO it will lower insurance rates .... to those who let their autonomous system upload data to the insurance carrier. Some insurance carriers already offer a "smart" plan with lower rates as long as you keep a scanner in your car to detect high accelerations and sharp turns. Perhaps there's also GPS tracking as well.
It’s an investment in our future.
God help us.
I just returned from San Francisco where it seems a lot of people have switched to driverless Waymo taxis to get around instead of Uber or Lyft. They are everywhere.
Driverless trucks on the interstates will be next.
I get notices like this from my local utility company as well.
An offer of lower rates for a “smart plan” - IOW, the utility company gets to set the temp of my home without me being able to change it.
I can only imagine that 85 will be the set temp during our summer temps of 100+ and 65 in the winter for heat.
No. Thanks.
“a 3.5-mile loop between LaVilla and EverBank Stadium”
LaVilla.....right up there with moncrief.
Heaven forbid we have an autonomous vehicle desert in the “urban areas”. SMH
When I lived there in the early 70’s just learning how to drive, Moncrief was one place that was forbidden................
If this is anything like the ride hailing pilot schemes currently underway at Tesla it is still very much “SUPERVISED “ Full Self Driving. AI “drives” for the most part. The teleoperator monitors and “drives” for the tricky bits. And the Supervisory driver takes over when both screw up.
I'll stay happy with my past 12 power bills totaling $852, averaging $71/month. That works only because of the power of the word "decentralized", meaning my decentralized solar isn't regulated by some unelected bureaucrat in some central headquarters. For me the argument of solar vs coal vs natural gas isn't so much about which energy source is better, but about who controls it. If I subscribed to the utility's "smart" plan I'd make my power consumption more centralized.
Jacksonville also has an above ground automated people mover which nobody ever uses.
It’s commonly known as “the Skyway to nowhere”......and has been quite the boondoggle over the years at the low low cost of $450 million dollars for a MASSIVE 2 1/2 mile loop.
This will be the same thing, only these vehicles have the distinct possiblity of bursting into flames at some point.
The monorail boondoogle has long been a city favorite!
And then there’s the new tax on the horizon to pay for a football stadium the city doesn’t need and I will more than likely never go to.
We planned to move out of duval when I retired in 2019 and changed our minds......a decision I will more than likely regret for the rest of my life.
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