alt Hacker NewsPublic transit is a dream turned nightmare consistently for seventy-five years. Autonomy will be less efficient -- but not that much less efficient given closer car spacing, speed, and remote parking -- but it will be spectacularly more convenient and comfortable. I'm all for it. You'll survive the tire pollution.
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> Public transit is a dream turned nightmare consistently for seventy-five years
*In the United States. For reasons we have avoided in much of the rest of the world...
> I'm all for it. You'll survive the tire pollution.
Will you enthusiastically support the taxes on you needed to entirely offset this negative externality?
> You'll survive the tire pollution.
I tend to expect better from HN commenters. I don't have an interest in having a discussion with such a callous and dismissive comment. I hope your day gets better.
Tire pollution is worse than tailpipe emissions and the full effects aren't known. You're dismissive of other people's and the environment's health and you're wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...
That's one opinion. My opinion is public transport is phenomenal. It's relatively reliable (very in some places), generally clean and safe, low cost, encourages urban/high efficiency development, protects greenspace, and employees people.