Even if you perfectly solve crashes (doubtful, definitely not something that exists right now), the problems of microplastic pollution from tires and emissions from electricity generation are non-trivial.
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muhyb@programming.dev 3 months ago
Jevons didn’t know that autonomous vehicles can work like a hive mind, today it’s possible.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Sure, is possible to make AVs into basically drone swarms that have perfect coordination, the problem is that unless you also kick all human-controlled cars of the road, it’s not going to work. Drone swarms don’t have human controlled drones, or even drone swarms from other manufacturers, flying through the middle of them, or they would be crashing into each other all the time.