Cant really disagree with any of that Curt. I generally time flights into and out of LAX to avoid traffic. The billion dollar hov lane on the 405 was a complete waste of money. What a boondoggle.
There is a new tax to support mass transit but the housing development always seems to happen before the transport infrastructure to support it is in place. So gridlock will continue for a decade or more I imagine. Anyway you are always welcome to stop by for a beer as we are pretty close to that route if you take the 405. On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 7:33 AM Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On the one hand I can't disagree with you on the safety front, our species > is singularly bad at accurately judging risk, look at all the people afraid > to fly but willing to drive for instance. > > On the other hand I like driving and some joy would be lost should I not > be able to. Also how is a self-driving car going to deal with my cabin 3/4 > mile from the road? > > As for heavy traffic, our poorly designed cities and lack of public > transport are largely to blame. When I go to LA I end up driving from LAX > to Burbank which takes too long in the best of times. I'd love to be able > to take the train but its so terribly inconvenient its actually easier to > drive. Someday when the rail extension to the airport is done it might be > feasible, I look at it each time I'm there and it seems like progress is > being made but only when measured against the fact that I've been making > this trip for a decade, the month to month progress seems to be essentially > zero... > > -Curt > > On Friday, June 1, 2018, 1:42:04 AM EDT, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > The bar is set fairly low in terms of human controlled car accident rates > and humans coping with unexpected failures. > > There seems to be a greater willingness to accept human errors than machine > errors. Not sure this is entirely rational. > > Humans are really bad drivers. If a machine can do it reliably better then > bring it on. When I am old, I dont think I will be saying I wish I spent > more time driving. The best car is the one you never have to drive, so you > can spend your limited time on earth doing more interesting stuff. > > Think of all the consciousness wasted by people sitting in stop and go > traffic, concentrating on the bumper ahead. And the negative effects on > stress and mood. What a drain on humanity. > > Why is a human running a red light and t boning me so much better than a > machine doing it? Or a machine wrecking my car instead of me somehow worse? > What matters is the overall performance across the population vs current > technology. > > Ultimately the costs and benefits of these things will speak for > themselves. I'm pretty sure the machines are already better. Waymo has > driven millions of miles on public roads now. Fiat just sold them another > 20k minivans to use as driverless taxis. You dont buy 20,000 minivans > unless you are pretty sure about what you are going to do with them. > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
