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Public transit works like this too

It's a downside of public transport too. Possibly my reason for being sensitive to this though is that I almost exclusively use public transport, getting a taxi is relatively rare for me, and I don't own a car.

Have you used public transit in San Francisco?

I've used it quite a bit since moving to the Bay at the start of the year. They take good care of the buses and trains, things are on time or reasonably close to it. I have no complaints.

Yes? Sometimes buses are late or full. But it goes places and it's cheap.

I want hyper personal transport.

I want high reliability driverless services we can rent for our own cars.

I want to fall asleep in the car with my family and dogs and wake up on the beach or in the mountains.

That'll be peak Americana.

Yea do what you want outside cities. Within cities, cars are extremely space inefficient.

Signed, a certified Waymo lover.

it'll just drive you to the detention center. yeah let's give Trump and Musk and their friends the ability to autonomously use facial recognition on the cameras in the vehicle to identify individuals wanted by the state and to transport political prisoners directly to prison.

maybe they'll even ban human controlled cars, because they're more dangerous after all. you don't need to control your own destination. you have nothing to hide. right?

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