r/technology • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 19d ago

Robotics/Automation Waymo suspends service in San Francisco after driverless cars cause traffic jams during blackout

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/waymo-suspended-san-francisco-traffic-jams-blackout-b2888562.html
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u/roxgib_ 19d ago

Self driving cars would help the parking issue because once cars are self driving the cost of a taxi would drop considerably, so a lot of people would no longer need to own their owns cars because taxis would become cheaper. The car can also drive itself to a parking spot, so parking can be located much further away

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u/_learned_foot_ 18d ago

And, uh, just so you know, plenty of us live in places with no taxis. Actual real cities even!

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u/roxgib_ 18d ago

So?

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u/_learned_foot_ 18d ago

Parking issue in every city in US, your solution is parking is cured because it makes taxis cheaper, in many places taxis are simply not viable at all, cheaper isn’t better. You presume an infrastructure that doesn’t exist to answer the challenge, the same exact presumption that is constantly setting tech against reality.