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Maybe if we just, I dunno, funded more mass transit and made it more accessible? Hell, trains are way better at being automated than any single car.
That works in a city, it's not viable to have mass transit in every place, you still need cars for total areas
Those areas don't really have silly things like pedestrains, though. They're also far too small of a market to design self-driving cars for.
There are areas that are not rural that need cars, because the public transit sucks.
There's no fast way to go to San Jose where my friend lives from Sunnyvale where I'm staying.
Walking is 3 hours, but walking to a train stop and then walking from the train stop would be about 2 hours. Buses don't connect well either, so it's still like 2 hours after you do all the transfers.
Or I could pay $17 for a Lyft and make it there in 20 minutes.
Yes, public transit should be better in the suburbs, but you're talking about a very large SF bay area that needs better connections from everywhere to everywhere
The SF Bay area needs more funding for transportation, period. The roads seem to always be under construction and the traffic lights just spontaneously stop working sometimes.
Yes, but also improve kid and dark skin people detection tools, they don't work just for driving cars. Efficient, fast and accurate people detection and tracking tools can be used in other myriad of stuff.
Imagine a system that tracks the amount of people in different sections of the store, a system that checks the amount of people going in and out of stores to control how many are inside... There's a lot of tools that already do this, but and they works somewhat reliably, but they can be improved, and the models being developed for cars will then be reused. I+D is a good thing.
An AI that can follow black people around a store? You might be into something.