Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem. We shouldn’t be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution. But I guess that’s not profitable so I guess we’ll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.

I mean the US is heavily car centric. Self driving cars are an attempt to adapt to what the reality of the world currently is. We should absolutely be doing things to make cars less of a requirement by improving public transit and creating more livable spaces that don’t require cars, that can even be the primary goal, but it won’t eliminate cars completely, and if it does it will take A LOT longer than self driving cars. Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.