• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Once we have proper self driving cars none of these recent “innovations” like that or the speed limiting would matter.

    Ideally self driving cars would also be without a steering wheel and just be half width with a single seat or two seats facing each other to reduce energy requirements. You could just develop this with a manhattan style project and test it in a single city banning all other private cars except delivery vehicles.

    • Grostleton@lemm.ee
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      16 hours ago

      Might as well ignore all attainable goals that would benefit society in the short term in favor of sci-fi pipe dreams that are perpetually delayed as we endlessly run into stumbling blocks.

      Forget solar/wind/geothermal/etc. development as well, fusion power could happen any day now so why bother with any of that comparatively inefficient junk?