• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Inner cities are better served by trolleys/buses anyhow. Self-driving taxis would work best at the edges of a city, or to fill gaps between train stations in suburbs

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      How would self-driving taxis do this any better than taxis that already exist and aren’t relying on large tech corporations?

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        Cheaper, safer and one extra seat.

        We’re obviously not there yet but I haven’t heard a single good argument for why we wouldn’t be in the future.

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        I don’t think they’d do much better besides being safer, eventually. Just saying that’s the only place where they’d make sense to go.

        Edit: giving it a bit more thought, they should also have greater passenger capacity for their size