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Comment by bigyabai

6 days ago

> 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