@gnuwaves743
2+ hour car rides to sit in an office for 8 hours to sit in 2+ car ride home to stream shows on the sofa. The American dream.
@kiuidreamsofgardens
Can't believe im actually seeing "people not robots" in a protest before 2080
@DanielBrice7f58a6
Notably, in the Tempe incident, the self-driving car that killed that pedestrian HAD a safety driver. The safety driver was using their phone when the incident happened.
@DenizOzmalkoc
I love how the marketing video of Ford shows adding more public transportation, bike lanes and narrowing roads will make everything better while trying to sell you cars :D
@tinfoilslacks3750
It really comes down to one extremely simple fact: The problem with car dependent infrastructure is not that the cars are driven by people, it's that people are wholely dependent on cars.
@ANoBaka
Programmer here, I was working on one of the (many many) ECUs that was supposed to be sitting in the UBER Volvo car, handling a safety critical feature. Not sure if it made it to the car in the end, because it was crazy how the project was driven. When you say that they care about profits and not safety, you are 100% correct. There were no tests on the code at all while the ECU was already supposed to be delivered into testing vehicles and we (not me, because I got out of it) had to work a lot of overtime trying to even have passing tests in place. The lead constantly requested, and were granted "deviations" for missing tests and critical features being lacking and told us to not report bugs as "bugs" but as "work items" because they could be held liable if we called them "bugs". The lead was even yelling at team members because of how badly it was going, despite the problem being the lead having an unrealistic schedule and accepting features that were never going to make it in the time they were requesting as well as the lead putting the priority on new features rather than securing tests. I will state that it was not Volvo or UBER, but a third party they had contracted, but Volvo was the one granting the deviations. It's really really bad and I'm glad to have made it out from that trashheap.
@nitehawk86
7:15 I was expecting the cone to go in front of the car, but putting it on the hood is vastly more funny.
@tommyjones6866
The biggest issue here in the US is, and always will be, the lack of mixed-use neighborhoods. The closest grocery store/mini mart/bodega is about 1/2 mile from my house. Its impossible for me to walk or bike there because I would have to cross a major road that has no sidewalks and nowhere to safely cross. I have to drive EVERYWHERE for EVERYTHING because my neighborhood is nothing but houses in a 1/2 mile radius. If we refuse to build mixed-use neighborhoods, AVs are inevitable.
@fiofofionomoto
The absolute fear you instilled in me when you said that autonomous vehicle companies are going to export American driving styles to Europe. Instant horror.
@antikapitalist1312
You say Utrecht decided to change, but I think it's important to mention that massive (often disruptive) protests played a big part in forcing that decision. People nowadays seem to have forgotten their collective power when they work together ;)
@felipecastillo9052
It's amazing that the city adaptation to AVs timeline seems surreal, until you remember that it's pretty much the same timeline of how cities where bulldozed to adapt to cars
@burnheart123
With self-driving cars, the average number of people in a car will drop below 1.
@NotJustBikes
What was most surprising to me was that when I began researching this video (two years ago!) it was going to be about some of the technical challenges that would need to be overcome in order to make self-driving cars a reality, but the conclusion was going to be that ultimately, AVs would be a good thing. By the time I was done researching this topic I was absolutely horrified of our future self-driving dystopia. 😱
@jurremulockhouwer3094
Last month I was on holiday in California and visited the Tech Interactive in San Jose. Next to the exibitions about climate change and space travel, there was also an IMAX theater where they had different movies that you could go to. We went to 'The City of the Future' and I, as a big fan of your channel, was very interested in what they would come up with. They followed a civil servant from the municipality of Los Angeles who was leading a project in the city to improve it for better mobility in the future. One of the things that they did in the movie was to visit different places in the world to see what they could learn, and the first place they went to was the Netherlands. Me being from the Netherlands and watching your channel thought 'Ooh wow, lets see what they learned from the Netherlands, there is so much to choose from'. But then the two things they took from the Netherlands, and I am not kidding, was a self sailing boat in the canals of Amsterdam and some business building where they put a lot of sensors throughout the building so that it could detect when someone in the room so that the lights and heating could be turned on automatically. That was it!! And then at the end of the movie, when they were talking about their ideal city of the future, their solution to traffic congestion was even more stupid than automomous cars, it was flying cars 😂😂😂 It was both the most stupid and the most American 'City of the Future' video I had ever seen.
@Joao-pl6db
The eliminating pedestrians section was hard to watch because I've seen many stores close down when streets that used to have little traffic went bankrupt after the increase in car traffic and became hostile to pedestrians.
@SonnyDarvish
Every time my family members visit me in Germany, coming from Iran (city of Rasht), they always mention how quite everything and everyone are. Not only far less honking, but the design of the cities and having maximum 30km/h speed limit are the main reasons.
@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime
This is like the anti-thesis to the "The simple solution to traffic" video from years back. Glad that we've gotten to this point
@shieldgenerator7
12:31 this clip is terrifying. that car was about to run the red light and hit that pedestrian, but another car ran the green light and t-boned it instead, saving the pedestrian's life
@AlyxForest
This video is great. It starts out stressful and dystopian, then ends with a calm "there are actual solutions, here they are, they are easy and better". Your presentation never ceases to impress me.
@NotJustBikes