Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "Benn Jordan" channel.

Yeah to just act like you can create a space with only self-driving cars implies that it is a space without pedestrians or cyclists. So basically just highways, which is by far the easiest thing to do in self driving and basically already exists and works relatively well. The whole problem with self driving is actually having to navigate more complex traffic than just a highway. And as soon as you get off the highway, the tangent becomes completely irrelevant, because you need to worry about pedestrians and cyclists, and therefore traffic signs as well.
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@HandleFatman I don't know, that's sounds rather dystopian tbh. There'll be a lot of political backlash for anything like that. And you can't say anything about the sudden movements. There's still physics. If I walk next to a road and then start crossing the road, a car with 150km/h won't be able to stop. You can activate the brakes in nano seconds, that doesn't matter that much, you'd still have to slow down at a reasonable deceleration. Even if braking technology would allow you to somehow stop for something like that (which is already extremely unlikely) from inside the car it would be the equivalent of ramming a wall at 150km/h, so as long as there are humans inside the vehicle, which is kinda the point, you can't do that. This flow state system just doesn't work inside cities. Any autonomous vehicle that is viable, needs to be able to operate in real world conditions as we see today, since it is still an object with a human inside and therefore there's a limit to the amount of forces you can apply on the vehicle. And at low speeds you might as well stick to the system we have today, it wouldn't really matter too much, which means you wouldn't have to take such draconian measures as requiring to chip everyone.
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@HandleFatman I still don't see how the argument makes sense. First of all, having cars go this fast is a disaster for both the environment and noise pollution. There's a reason highways have to be several 100 meters away from residential buildings (at least here in the Netherlands), and it's because fast moving cars are extremely loud. And the loudness is due to the tires going across the asphalt. At high speeds electric cars are just as loud as ICE cars (actually louder, since they are heavier than an ICE car of the same class). High speeds cause significantly increased damage to roads as well, which means they need to be maintained a lot more, which is extremely expensive. And all that just to be a few minutes earlier at your destination. Yeah, that's a hard no from me. Having to buy a tag just to be able to go outside is insane, particularly considering the benefits are negligent. Increasing maximum speeds at a highway when all cars are autonomous because it is safe anyway I can see happening (although environmental and noise pollution are still concerns, in the Netherlands the maximum speed on highways was actually reduced for this reason, not safety but air quality). But I don't want cars to pass my house at 100km/h, not even when I'm inside of the house, let alone in a garden or something and definitely not when I'm actually on the sidewalk.
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@grandsome1 freight rail is actually a pretty good network in the US. The problem is most of it is single track, which makes passenger rail horribly inefficient to run. And since most railways in the US are privately owned, they only use it for the much more profitable freight rail rather than passenger rail. And doubling all the tracks is an expense these companies just aren't willing to make. US rail isn't, and really has never been, designed around passenger rail since the advent of the car. That's also why passenger rail is so much better on the east coast than anywhere else. The east coast was already pretty densely populated in the 19th century, when the rest of the country was practically empty. So yeah, you can go every 10 min from NYC to Boston by train, but if you want to go from Los Angeles to Dallas, you'd have to take a bus, there literally isn't a train that can bring you there, and the trip takes more than 30 hours.
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