this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
607 points (96.9% liked)
Technology
85080 readers
3975 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Y’know I can’t put my finger on it but something tells me that there’s an alternative to that without technofascist wet-dream robocars involved 🤔
You couldn't pay me to get into a Waymo but you COULD probably convince me to pay a person to get me somewhere. What a novel concept!
Or trains, which I guess is still technically paying a person to get me somewhere in a really removed way.
Or trollies! Or subways! Or rickshaws!
I'm in process of designing a robot rickshaw. The big difference is that it'll be pedalled by a shitty robot instead of a human. No I don't want a regular ebike it's a rickshaw we do this the hard way
Even busses are relatively okay.
Where‘s that from?
What form of public transport is this and how do I apply to be the driver?
Trains are me and my neighbors paying ourselves to get everyone where they're going in an extremely efficient way!
Waymo is everyone paying tech bros for an inefficient illusion of futurism with a whole lot of negative externalities that is drawing resources away from real progress in order to enrich the few.
Even if there was no other person involved. Making trains self driving makes way more sense and is way more achievable than hoping to automate chaotic road behavior
Self driving trains are far safer than any other option.
Let's go up and keep the train driver company!
If you live outside of a major city I don't see an alternative.
Because the alternatives were deliberately dismantled.