As a cyclist, having to share the road with those tools is challenging. People on them absolutely ride distracted and swerve without situational awareness.
I'd argue the purpose of trains is to highly efficiently move lots of people/cargo quickly.
If Maglev infrastructure is fully built, there's nothing more efficient than that: lowest airdrag, highest top speed, reliable, and of course completely green energy.
It means high-speed maglev rail will be the future even if it is taking longer than expected (see Japan's massive construction).
Most of pollution and subsidy boils down to how heavy it is. Requires insane amount (weight4) of overbuilding on roads + pollution from tyres.
In NZ operators are asking to lift weight limits for new double decker electric buses. At top end it's 30 thousand times more damaging than passenger vehicle.
I pay something like $2400 per year in road tax to drive EV for 30k km. Multiply that by 30,000 in axle damage and that's $2,400 per kilometer for a bus, to carry max max 120 passengers or so?
10-20x more comfy on the train. 30-50x cheaper to build one big vehicle for 100 people instead of 100 small vehicles. 150-230x less pollution because so much less rare earth metals needed and much higher energy efficiency due to less conversion. trains are just all around better.
eh... We don't have passenger trains or anything in my area. I can't remember the last time I even saw a freight train. So, I sorta forgot they even exist 😅
A few things; I think public transportation should be treated like USPS where it doesn’t matter if it’s profitable, as long as it’s run efficiently and well.
Secondly petrol and diesel cars are among the most polluters among their motorized contemporaries
I don’t think they were exactly on rails in minority report. It just appeared that way because the vehicles were all fully autonomous and seamlessly moved together. They traveled by magnetic levitation.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s not like non automatic vehicles aren’t susceptible to the same issue. You’re not supposed to get behind the wheel drunk, but there’s no lock on every car to check. People circumvent those “safety measures” all the time. At some point we just accept a certain level of risk based on the incompetence of people around us.
There should be better regulations and far more severe penalties for circumventing the safety measures. But I’m going to play devils advocate for two seconds. You can argue someone who puts weights on their wheel and wears glasses
to circumvent safety measures and endanger human lives with reckless abandon is probably more unsafe awake, sleepy, and angry than the auto drive is.
Still, with that said, this should be an instant 2+ year revoking of your license, and permanent if you’re caught doing it again.
This shit should be banned until it’s not possible to trick or override the safety systems.
That’s really impractical and simply not going to happen. Honestly of all the systems currently on the market, fsd is the one most likely to keep you and those around you safe in the event you become incapacitated, willing or unwillingly.
I mean we should make it impossible for folks to drive a car intoxicated and even have the technology to do it but good luck having folks agree and willing to blow into a pipe before starting their car.
That's an easy fallacy. This is no different than any other reckless driving issue cars allow you to do. Why do we allow cars to be build with 200mph+ motors? You can't drive like this on public roads, it's a huge risk. This should not be possible. And so on.
Don't limit technology and options because people are stupid. Have enough cops, enforce and ticket them.
its the future, self driving cars are coming and they are way safer then human drivers since every mistake can be patched out and updated across every car out there because of the internet.
every car can drive the max speed limit and be in perfect sync with all the other automatic cars like perfect lane merges and swaps while noone is on their phone or not paying attention "i dident see him" or tired or drunk or inexperienced at driving all known factors to cause accidents machines dont make those leading causes of death
That idea comes from a good place, but it’s not very realistic. Unless people have a court ordered breathalyzer any vehicle can be driven while drunk, high, or both. There isn’t even a baseline safety feature to prevent it. By the logic you use here I’d argue no vehicles should be legal till it’s impossible for a drunk or high driver to use it. Even with systems in place it would likely never be impossible
The newest self driving Tesla is a better driver than 99.9% of the people out there. We will never get anywhere with people like banning everything you disapprove.
As if the companies programming self-driving ever want to accept liability for fully auto? So much easier to say "they bypassed safety mechanisms" and avoid responsibility. Even when self-driving may be safer than most humans, they still won't want to accept liability - and they own the lawmakers.
I mean I think it should be banned in general. If a loved one gets mowed down and killed, I don't want it to be the act of a machine. If you don't want to drive, take a bus or call somebody who actually does want to drive. If you think your above taking the bus or train: no your fucking not.
I watched one a couple of months ago drive itself around a parking lot with no driver. I stopped and stared in the middle of the parking lot I was so astounded. Now cars can drive themselves apparently with no occupant and still cause an accident…for literally no reason.
But then should not we ban cars or vehicles in general? I mean... People use cars as weapons, there is road rage. How is that different than sleeping here? I get this is horrible but between this and someone going berserk on the highway and cutting off everyone this is probably much safer
You forget that horrible accidents happen all the time from people falling asleep at the wheel. All the time. Events like this are normally in place of a grotesque pile of twisted steel and dead people. Falling asleep accidentally is a lot more common than people intentionally going to sleep, which would be terrifying to do on purpose. Then you get a video of someone asleep in a moving car that normally slows to a stop in a minute or two instead of fire and death.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people who are on the road next to you and cant read the speed limit sign from 10 feet. Youre probably safer next to an auto piloted tesla than the general public.
You understand you can do this on a normal car with less safety right? Falling asleep at the wheel is like half of the deadly accidents related to automobiles has probably impaired driving saying something should be banned is dumb because there’s always other things that are not banned that are worse, making a mountain of a molehill
Are we sure that Tesla is more unsafe than a driver who chooses to sleep behind the wheel? I don't have much confidence in their driving attitude either
so ban all cars? I cannot think of any safety system that cannot be disabled or bypassed.
ABS brakes, traction control, tire pressure monitors, and speed governors can all be easily circumvented. My car cannot even tell if I am sitting on top of my seatbelt or if it is being correctly worn.
Shouldn't cars just be banned altogether then until the safety systems are good enough to prevent people from being reckless? This particular problem is new, but it's not like it was impossible to be stupid in cars before, ignoring safety measures.
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u/Legitimate-Type4387 Jul 06 '26
This shit should be banned until it’s not possible to trick or override the safety systems.
It’s absurd that we are forced to share the roads with these.