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Trains

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.

I prefer public transit

less of both; more mass transit

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?

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.

Modern day AI models? Nononononononono

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.

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.

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.

Less cars, less parking, less roads, less sprawling cities.

Trains, pls.

Until EVERY vehicle is self-driving then no, I'll drive myself

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 🙄

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.

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.

Whatever can move the most people the safest and the fastest. Would love some great mass transit.

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.

We don't have driverless cars here but that doesn't matter. No way would I get in one.

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.

Neither. People are dangerous, selfish idiots and robots are created by dangerous, selfish idiots.

The concept of a driverless car is good, the reality is not. The technology isn't there yet, despite all the money and resources being pumped in to it.

Driverless cars were THE big thing a few years ago, and all the big companies were putting money into it and hyping it. Tesla's value was predicated on it being big in driverless cars. Now a few years down the line, everyone has gone quiet on driverless cars and AI is THE big thing. It all just seems like examples of tech stock market hype. We don't have driverless cars, and it remains to be seen when they will be fit for purpose. We don't have AI, and it remains to be seen when that will be fir for purpose.

I don't doubt it will come, but it feels it's still "a few years off". The industry likes to talk about "regulatory hurdles" but the reality is it's too unsafe and unreliable to be deployed. So instead the tech industry is deploying something else unsafe and unreliable, but also unregulated: AI.

Neither but no driverless cars is the preference.

Do YOU want to replace your own car with an AI operated one

Of course not.

The current question is elsewhere: whether to replace taxi services by driverless cars? And that is hard enough, still not possible for these so-called AI thingys.