less of both; more mass transit
driverless train/bus or human piloted?
Driverless, which mass transit is actually a better fit for our technology anyways, especially at its current level. However, we as a species seem to be very intent on doing the wrong thing at every point possible.
I don’t oppose automation of many of the piloting tasks, but I’d say it’s great to have a human there, too.
That's understandable, and it really depends on the environment. A street car would benefit from a human driver a lot more than a subway or peoplemover would (which is why so many are automated already)
I’m a good driver, and AI is fucking stupid.
The only way you could possibly convince me to even get into a self driving car would be if my only other option was to get into a self flying helicopter.
Also, just to nitpick, the self driving car can’t “go rogue”, that would imply that it has consciousness, sentience, an understanding of what it’s actually doing, judgement, etc. a bunch of shit it doesn’t have. Self driving cars can and do “malfunction” frequently, but they can’t “go rogue”.
Don’t let the techno fascists’ constant anthropomorphic descriptions of their fuckware chat bots confuse you.
Considering the driverless car doesn't yet exist, I'll go with human operated.
I think automatic transmissions were a mistake. There'd be a lot less shit drivers if you had to pass the driving test with a manual.
I passed the driving test with a manual. You do not want me on the road.
Same. I'm a menace to society when behind the wheel.
But if I ever went to US (god forbid) I can pretend I'm all cool and be like 'I can drive stick'. Which we all know means 'I'm good at sex'.
You sure about that?
i recommend visiting the balkans, your belief may get challenged
All manuals, no drivers?
Trains
By the time you solve all the issues with self driving cars you'll always end up with some form of train. So I would suggest skipping the extra steps.
This is the real take. The problem with traffic is that it’s elastic and based on a lack of information. If all vehicles accelerate at the same time and don’t have to slowly increase the distance between the next vehicle due to safety / uncertainty - you get a train.
I prefer public transit
Until EVERY vehicle is self-driving then no, I'll drive myself
Less cars, less parking, less roads, less sprawling cities.
Trains, pls.
I hate self driving cars for 2 reasons:
1, they don't work well. They're out there causing accidents.
2, who is in command? Who do we jail when it kills someone?
Well clearly the coorporation for shipping faulty/incomplete softw... Huh what's this green stack of paper?
Sorry, I lost my train of thought. What were we talking about?
Whatever can move the most people the safest and the fastest. Would love some great mass transit.
The more skills people acquire and use throughout their lives, the better. I prefer people behind the wheels of cars. Some automated commuter trains already exist, and that's cool, but driving is a skill that should be kept by the masses.
I can appreciate useful skills, like how to make rope or make a meal or change a diaper, but being able to drive is only useful because we have made it necessary. I'd rather people have time to learn skills that have some inherent use than have to waste time learning how to drive.
Modern day AI models? Nononononononono
Bruh, I don't even like being a passenger with a human driver. I need to drive myself or I walk.
I have intense driving anxiety and only drive around my area willingly, so self-driving cars (or just more trains) would help me a lot.
even Teslas still require a human driver.
That's because musk is a moron who made Tesla ditch LIDAR for optical sensors.
Waymo taxis are fully autonomous and are already safer than humans.
Humans are absolutely horrible at driving. It's a major cause of death. Computers don't get tired, distracted, or intoxicated.
Or angry for no apparent reason.
I'm a "car guy", I'll give up driving when they put me in the ground. I don't trust an AI to make snap decisions, I don't trust it to prioritize human life over property damage, and most importantly I like to drive.
I like to drive. I like being in control of my car and, although I don't really care about "owning" it, I don't like the level of connectivity "Driverless" cars have. I'd never want one.
That said, I hate other drivers. Staring at their phones, not signaling, speeding, generally driving like a jackass. If giving up driving meant that no one else was driving either? Maybe. I just might.
I'd much prefer trains and buses, with reasonable cycling infrastructure nearby (to include lockable bike garages).
There are zero human transportable vehicles driven by AI today. The current breed of driverless cars are based completely on Machine Learning - a deterministic technology as opposed to an LLM which is non-deterministic based on noise and randomness.
I’m absolutely certain all of the idiot takes will be corrected 🙄
Neither but no driverless cars is the preference.
Humans are bad at driving our multiton death machines. We have slow reaction times, we get distracted, other humans don't react logically, a true self driving system would be amazing.
Sadly none of the players on the market seem to actually do self driving good at all.
Probably we will crack fusion before we have true self driving.
I’ve been driving for a few decades now and I’ve seen plenty of edge cases during that time where driverless cars likely wouldn’t do very well. A few recent examples:
- A car on fire in the middle of an intersection. Cars drove around it on the red light to make way for approaching fire trucks.
- I stopped at a red light at a construction zone and was watching for the light to turn green, and didn’t see a police officer standing next to the construction crew trying to wave me through. I finally noticed him when he yelled at me.
- There’s a traffic light near me where two roads intersect at about a 30 degree angle. You regularly see both the red & green signals for both roads when stopped. I’ve seen Teslas that misread red signals as green be cause of this.
Neither. People are dangerous, selfish idiots and robots are created by dangerous, selfish idiots.
I don't trust the currently available autonomous cars any more than I trust other drivers so I prefer to drive myself. Even if it was perfecr I would want the ability to take over whenever I wanred to address some scenarios where I don't think autonomous would ever be reliable enough in rural areas. If it was good enoigh I would be fine with it on well marked highways or well maintained urban areas, though I'd rsther use mass transit in those situstions.
Quite a few other drivers should be replaced with autonomous driving as soon as possible.
A long drive gives me time to think without the distraction I get when I don't have to keep my eyes on the road. I'd just grab my phone in a FSD vehicle and waste my time door scrolling as usual.
I've never been in anything self-driving, and I'm not sure the tech is fully there. I do expect a future where various vehicles and such are all communicating with each other and able to move more efficiently, but I still think we should reduce the number of single-occupancy boxes on the road.
I'd rather take public transit as my first choice in any case.
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