Oddbean new post about | logout
▲ ▼
2e5b3695 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Self-driving cars cause a traffic jam in Austin, Texas.

Shocking footage from Austin showed around 20 Cruise-operated Chevrolet Bolts causing traffic mayhem.

"Are you telling me they have no way to get out of this?" a man shouts in the video.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1705651803168366638?s=20
▲ ▼
7da0f387 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @056d6548 

So you mean a handful of people could summon a traffic jam at will?

Interesting.
▲ ▼
Maletic Research | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @056d6548 Self driving cars are oxymoron as long as they share traffic with human driven vehicles and pedestrians, bicycles,... It can't be done. What is required is "phase transition", sudden switch to total automated car traffic and that won't happen. What  this tech, actually way simpler version of it, can be used for is the next transportation revolution-fully automated human transport flying drones at low altitudes. Physical engineering is here, NASA already has automated traffic ctrl 4 it