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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
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Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cars are incredibly inefficient at transporting groups of people long distances

FTFY

I'd love a legit train system to take me to locations across the state or country. But for running errands or local, day-to-day tasks, trains aren't the answer.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Of course! For running errands and local, day-to-day tasks the bicycle is of course the best vehicle :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Assuming you live in a bike-friendly area. Bad biking infrastructure means you're basically risking your life every time you go out on one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I mean, a car wouldn't help in that situation either, so..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good luck getting through that with any vehicle lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I have taken the tram for whatever I need short distance so far, it's also free and goes from like behind my apartment to pretty much anywhere I would wanna go, including work. If I wanna visit my parents then yea, I take the train but I haven't needed a car in years.