Dashcam footage shows driverless cars clogging San Francisco
Anyone ever think about what a nightmare driverless cars will be if they actually work? Right now our crumbling infrastructure is loaded with traffic. Imagine if the max amount of driving a human can endure is removed entirely as a final constraint on the total utilization rate of this infrastructure and is replaced with a relentless driving machine that never tires or gets frustrated and has no fear of death.<p>People would commute up to 4 hours one way, napping in their cars, maybe even longer. Delivery vehicles running all hours of the night, perhaps with no one ever in them at all. People sending the cars to go pick things up or people that they otherwise wouldn&#x27;t have time in their day to do.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t want to live in your car that the pressure will still be exerted on you because you&#x27;ll be competing with people that do. Cars instructed to circle the block in areas with no parking clogging the streets. You&#x27;ll need a self driving car yourself to even get a spot since you&#x27;ll never defeat all the robot vultures.<p>People will forget how to drive entirely of course so there will be no going back. The whole thing will feed on itself, people will need more self driving cars to get back the time stolen by other self driving cars.