Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "Tom Nicholas"
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You are also being deceptive by cherry picking 47:03, you focus on the encumbrance of vehicles, but that's not what autonomous cars solve. Traffic jams are also due to the simple fact that someone brakes for no obvious reason, then then next one take a bit of time to react and stop. All those little times add up as such that someone far away has to wait minutes. When the first accelerate, the "wave" has also to propagate and that can also take minutes. Just because one guy did brake. Autonomous cars can just send "I am braking" and that message would go much faster (almost speed of light). You can consider all the autonomous car as one big car.
At crossing, you have the need for traffic light, people have to assess the situation too, even in a roundabout. Autonomous cars don't have to, they can just quickly find crowd sourced solution in a split of a second and even pass few cm from each other at good speed.
The thing is that you don't do it to be deceptive. You just can't make a 10h video and you can't have a rebuttal which takes into account what you ignore. It's unavoidable. Those who reply "then get educated", well, that's not that simple, there is more knowledge than the time someone has. Even experts have big holes in their knowledge because of that.
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