Wasn't there just a "free markets destroy traffic" post on here that ya'll were poo-pooing? Seem to be doing a pretty good job to me.
Critical support for the free market in its quest to destroy traffic by destroying automobiles
Shit, I got busted when I ran a stop sign during my first test and had to take it again
I can read that but I cannot actually fathom, the scale is beyond me.
3 Military-looking Humvee type things caught up in the crash. Cars are actually anti-Imperialist praxis?
Holy shit there were multiple car carrying trucks lmao
Hard to imagine none of this would have happened if the government just paid people to stay home.
The only "knows how to drive on black ice" is not driving on black ice. That's why we salt and sand the roads up here in New England.
"But I have 4 wheel drive, I'm invincible and can drive anywhere!"
They've never invested in road ice/snow clearing infrastructure because Texas baybee
What's even more wild about this incident is that these highways have been "retrofitted" recently to have all these lanes in the center that are designated "Express" toll ways
These toll ways are usually 2 lanes or 1 lane and there is no real shoulder or place to exit for miles due to the "automatic" toll system
Much of these toll roads are a result of "public-private" partnerships that literally just find newer ways to cheap out & charge for what once were free public thoroughfares
This pile-up is confined to these hemmed-in middle toll lanes, it's just the "free" market destroying it self lol
I don't understand. You all keep saying you like trains, which are just a bunch of vehicles joined together, but when people try to join all their cars together you say it's bad.
I've driven down this highway a bunch and this area always has bad accidents and insane truck drivers that go 90mph. Texas brings out the worst in car culture.
Our governor basically just likes to pass laws that overturn local laws (especially Austin) to own the libs in Austin despite living there.
I've got a theory that driving is just an inherently unsafe activity, and that some intrinsic features of our system of traffic laws and layouts will always lead to some crashes happen even if every vehicle is 100% obeying the law. This includes autonomous driving vehicles. I don't think they will ever be able to develop a program that will be able to drive to a safe enough standard for people to accept. At the beginning of the great automobile swindle the car manufacturers pulled on this country, there was quite a bit of outrage towards the dangerousicity of driving. To respond, the car companies waged an extensive propaganda campaign to redirect blame wherever possible ("Jay-walking", don't drive drunk, dont use your cellphone, etc. They'd have to run the same campaign to pass the blame off the autonomous driving system, and I just can't see that flying in this day and age.
All they have to do is show how many accidents are caused by simple basic human error, "distracted driving." They will just blame the driver and people will go with it because if there's one thing people love to do it's blame and hate on other people.
All they have to do is show how many accidents are caused by simple basic human error, “distracted driving.” They will just blame the driver and people will go with it because if there’s one thing people love to do it’s blame and hate on other people.
I don't think so. People are already so suspicious of technology. Remember when Google Glass rolled out, and they basically had to cancel it because people thought it was creepy?
Eh, self driving cars are already a thing. it's here to stay as long as the highway system is around. without major investment in an alternative to car/plane for commutes & long distance travel, self-driving cars will not just be accepted, they will be demanded. there is nothing more dreary to the driver than having to drive yourself to work or wherever fuck else, and people with money will insist they are insulated from that labor.
They're really not though, the technology is still quite far away. Watch some of those "latest advances in technology" vids of autonomous cars, and they can't even drive around a parking lot without slamming on the breaks at random time and hitting curbs. Tesla & co and cut together video to make them seem perfect, but I've yet to see an objective analysis of them that that makes it seem anywhere near viable. The technology is great at identifying things, but driving requires more than indentifying things, it requires estimating quantities/qualities about unknowns, which tech like CNNs just can't do.
IE, will there be an autonomous holocaust on halloween as the car's AI fails to identify people in costumes as people? I'm only half serious but I think that question will help lead you down the road of what I"m talking about.
there are certainly challenges, but I think it is also remarkable how well the systems work already. in our lifetimes, i definitely think autonomous cars will be a much more common thing over time, at least for those who have cars. and yes, there will be run-over children in costumes too, no doubt
IT'S MY FREEDOM TO DRIVE MY CAR SO IT CAN RESULT IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
Used to be commute before I quit last month. I keep winning mike you fucking asshole!
I've heard conflicting reports on the time it happened, but I legit could have been on that expressway
Don’t forget it being in Texas where no one knows how to drive
on ice
Also injured were four officers, three of whom were involved in the crash as they were heading to work.
Comrade winter!
