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Comment by oceanplexian

4 days ago

I know it’s a meme but there actually are fully self driving cars, they make thousands of trips every day in a couple US cities.

The capitalization makes it a Tesla reference, which has notoriously been promising that as an un-managed consumer capability for years, while it is not yet launched even now.

> in a couple US cities

FWIW, when you get this reductive with your criterion there were technically self-driving cars in 2008 too.

  • To be a bit more specific: no, they were not routinely making thousands of taxi rides with paying customers every day in 2008.

  • We can go further. Automated trains have cars. Streetcars are automatable since the track is fixed.

    And both of these reduce traffic