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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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[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If all the cars were connected and could take control away from the driver when theres a traffic jam and the road isnt completely blocked, there wouldnt be any jams anymore.

Its humans that fail to dissolve the traffic jam because theres a high amount of coordination needed. And quite the sensitivity on the pedals.

Thats the thing im always looking forward to considering the future of cars. All those cameras and other bells and whistles i never wanted. They should be optional.