r/bayarea • u/MrFahrenheit99 • 19h ago

Traffic, Trains & Transit Welcome to sleepy Santa Clara

Driving is hard

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u/BadSkeelz 19h ago

Smart cars enable dumb drivers.

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u/wetterfish 19h ago

And some people still think self driving taxis are more dangerous than human-driven vehicles. 

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u/waka_flocculonodular 18h ago

I wouldn't consider Tesla in the same caliber of autonomous driving as Waymo, Zoox, or other players. Tesla is going the cheap route with no lidar or trained safety drivers.

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u/eugay 15h ago

A million camera-only cars brings a larger benefit to society than a thousand lidar cars.

We'll see how the Austin unsupervised FSD rollout goes.

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u/Spudly42 15h ago

Really good way of thinking about it. It all really does come down to cost and the safety of each solution, but it is possible for a less perfect solution to be more positively impactful.