AliOski

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Thought about the limiting factor called “workforce”?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It is clear you have grown up in another country. You are just trying to drive how you are used to drive in another country. That doesn’t make how you are used to drive safer and the system any more unsafe.
1. “Bumperkleven” is forbidden. Whoever is creeping up to you in a few meters is breaking the law. You are also not supposed to merge back to the lane right in front of the other driver. I barely even see this happening. Most people just stay in their lane after taking somebody over, unless someone else with a higher speed is getting closer from behind them.
2. why the fuck should the person getting overtaken slow down? That adds unpredictability to the equation, for the person overtaking and the person behind you. That is super dangerous if you’ve been doing that. The slower the process, the better the situation is under control. You don’t want sudden changes in the situation on the road. Just keep driving with a constant speed, the people around you will be able to predict where you’ll be and the situation on the road becomes much simpler. You are the driver people are saying “wtf is he doing” if you’ve been slowing down while getting overtaken. Two cars driving next to each other is not a dangerous situation. Where did you get that from??? Our infrastructure allows for it because the lines on our roads are super clear. It is only dangerous if somebody didn’t notice the car besides them or forgets they are there. But that’s dangerous no matter the situation, not just because they are side-by-side.
1. Never seen this happen. People being overtaken always keep driving at the speed they are driving at. You are the only person here suddenly slowing down while being overtaken. You are that person you are talking about.
2. The idea behind it is that the flow of traffic should not be interrupted. The earlier you merge while everybody including yourself is driving at a steady pace, the better. The end of the lane forces the driver to get to a stop, and if you choose to only merge there, you don’t have any flexibility there. If you aren’t so lucky that you can merge instantaneously without slowing down, you would merge with a speed of zero. This forces the whole other lane to go on their brakes because you want to merge. It interrupts the flow of traffic. Yes, we treat people that try to get in front as people trying to get in front of the line because it fucks everybody else up, yes. I dont know where you go the idea from that your way of doing it is the proper way. It clearly isn’t. Merge as early as possible, it allows to keep the flow of traffic flowing.
About speed tickets: if you only go slightly above the speed limit, you’ll get a slap on the wrist (an expensive ticket). However, if you drive at dangerous speeds, you just lose your license. So I don’t really understand what you are talking about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Village in the Netherlands is the definition of “village” I am using.

I would recommend studying Dutch infrastructure and get some general knowledge about this country.

I’m not talking about very small villages like in Romania that are amidst huge swaths of empty land that are connected by little trains. The Netherlands is densely populated, all the landmass already has a purpose.

“Just build more train tracks” obnoxious naive response.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Maat we leven in een polder land, je kunt niet overal metros leggen. De grond in Nederland zakt al genoeg weg. Dat Amsterdam en Rotterdam metros hebben betekent niet dat dat overal zo kan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The last part about governments not acting up reckless driving, I think it depends on the country. In the Netherlands it is pretty well done. Most disciplined drivers you could find in the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Daar verschillen wij dan van mening. Ik vind het meestal een bad-faith argument wanneer mensen op basis van de huidige technologie tegen het principe van zelfrijdende auto’s zijn.

Dat laatste geeft ook aan dat je psychologisch iets erop tegen hebt (wat volledig begrijpelijk is, maar toch noemenswaardig).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
In one of my other comments I mentioned the reduce of traffic jams as an argument, due to coordination between vehicles.

About the accidents: reckless drivers also (mainly even I think, no source) kill innocent people on the road. Reducing the total amount of deaths is more important than some supposed moral superiority of only reckless drivers dying vs people dying due to technical faults.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
No, you can’t build train tracks to literally every village. Do you want all the land area to be covered in train tracks instead of roads?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
We hebben het over een hypothetische toekomst waar de technologie veiliger zou zijn dan mensen. Natuurlijk laten we niet voertuigen rijden die gevaarlijk zijn. Dat is ook niet waar het over ging.

Overigens rijden er al een decennia zelfrijdende bussen in Rotterdam.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
True, but that requires me having a drivers license + requires me driving. We are talking about the comparison to train commutes and the usefulness of self-driving technology. I don’t drive the train.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Who said car-only? I said that self-driving cars and trains/buses/subway do not solve the same problem. They can coexist just like how they do now.

The only thing this technology does is allowing commute time to become more productive and allowing more automatization for a job that always has shortage (think of bus drivers). If self-driving technology would become sufficiently good, the bus in my village could drive 4 times an hour, purely because there is no bus-driver necessary.

Also, things like traffic jams are supposed to become rarer too with autonomous vehicles, because all those cars are supposed to coordinate with each other. You ever realized that many traffic jams could be solved if everybody would start driving at the exact same speed at the exact same moment, instead of accelerating, slowing down, accelerating, slowing down. This is all because of human reaction time and the lack of coordination between vehicles. Traffic accidents are also supposed to go down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Voor die betere aansluitingen zul je toch echt zelfrijdende bussen moeten hebben (als zelfrijdende auto’s zo’n zonde zijn), want geen ziel wil buschauffeur worden in de huidige economie. Hoeveel jaren hebben we al een tekort aan buschauffeurs? Hoeveel jaren moeten we stakingen aanzien omdat de werkomstandigheden niet te doen zijn, eigenlijk gewoon door een tekort aan buschauffeurs?

Het gaat uiteindelijk om de technologie dat een vaartuig op 4 wielen autonoom kan rijden waardoor chauffeurs overbodig worden. Automatisering is de enige manier om ongewilde banen te elimineren.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t live in the USA, I live in the Netherlands, infrastructure here is very good, public transport-wise too. It’s just that a train can’t go to every little village that exists. There is a bus, but it only comes and goes once an hour (which is entirely reasonable for my village), which severely affects the travel time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really develop this idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The problem with this is that they don’t solve the same problem.

I use the train for almost all my transportation, trains are amazing.

However, the train doesn’t bring me to my front door. The train doesn’t bring me to my exact destination.

A self-driving car would save me at least 45 minutes during my commutes (one way), purely because of the flexibility.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The fact it runs on profit is not the deciding factor in this case. If the RAM manufacturers had more capacity, they would profit even more. The main problem is that those factories are huge investments that you would need to commit until the finish-line successfully without going bankrupt before you will be able to produce anything. China can take this risk because state funds and actual geopolitical justifications. Western countries can say to themselves too easily that they can keep buying it from Asia, which causes no countries or investors to want to commit to a similar project.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m sorry, but capitalism didn’t really exist up until industrialism. Before then, it was mainly feudalism.