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Seems like safety won't be an issue in the future with self driving cars, because they will all be standing still in a traffic when we all use them (quokk.au)
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So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.

Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.

This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!

And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h...

It will be beautiful (/s)

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I have an essential job and basically had to work as normal during COVID

I already commute at kind of weird times and basically never have to deal with much traffic anyway, but with almost everything else shut down and no one else on the road I averaged about 1mpg better than I usually do just from not having to deal with even that little bit of traffic.

And that was basically only for my commute into work, I go home at about 3AM, so even on a busy night I see maybe a dozen other cars on the road, so nothing at all changed there.

Just due to where I live and work and the hours I work, it's probably never going to make much sense for me to take public transit, I'd pretty much be the only person ever riding that bus or train or whatever at those times (and there probably wouldn't be too many taking that particular route at other times for that matter) and the nature of my job means I'll probably always have to work at least part time in-person, but getting everyone who possibly can to WFH and/or take public transit means less traffic for me.