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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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Seems like a potentially interesting commuter vehicle...
...never mind.
"You will own nothing and be thankful for it"
E: still to will
And as home batteries.
Why is self driving a prerequisite? "Car as a service" is something that already exists. It failed because it needed reserved parking spots (you couldn't just park wherever) and availability was spotty (because of the reserved parking spots).
I'm all in for something like this, but only as a supplement for a strong mass public transportation.
So.... The worse of private cars+ the worse of taxis+"AI"?
The self-driving part?
A Roomba doesn't weigh 2 tons and isn't traveling at 100kph and actively threatening the lives of nearby people.
A moving vehicle is a safety hazard to everything around it first and foremost, and the driving system must be able to account for that. Figuring out how to get from point A to point B comes after, and is very simple by comparison.
No, you're right of course - it necessitates a human driver. True awareness and decision making are not possible with our current level of technology.
Depends how you define AI.
So the car drives itself with... Real Intelligence? Or just heuristic rules? Maybe a driver in Cambodia remote driving?
Yeah no, efficiency and planning map routes aren't the hard parts of self-driving. The hard parts come from dealing with all of the unpredictable situations that happen on the road - flat tire on a busy highway, deer in the headlights, power steering failure while crossing a major intersection, aggressive drivers, poor visibility due to weather conditions, a child running into the road... you can't pre-program for situations like these because they're contextual, dependent on local conditions in that exact moment. All of the choices that might be made are different depending on whether there is another car in the lane next to you, or in front of or behind you, or oncoming, or if it's a bus or a dump truck or a motorcycle or a bicycle, or a ditch or a forest or the edge of a cliff, or if there's rain or fog or ice or smoke or debris or burning gasoline on the road... and the choice needs to be made right now, in less than a second, or you run over a 4 year old.
The real world is far too complex for a fixed set of predetermined rules to handle.
Why is it being local contrary to AI? Why is genAI the only AI? I'm sorry, but there's so much lack of knowledge here I'm not sure where you start.
So like trains but more expensive and without the walk to the station
There's a huge list of places that aren't in the US though (like, really huge).
*if That is just prediction unless youre a time travelver
There are plenty of reason that its an if but hurdles in the tech, alternitives making it irrelevent or polutical hurdles potentially subverting it.
I would like to build my own car but have no idea where to start.
If you live in the US, the best place to start is with a junkyard chassis, because if you have a VIN, all else is possible. If you want to go REALLY nuts, you can effectively create a sandrail type custom vehicle, but it'll never* be allowed on freeways
(it's not impossible, but the regulations and testing is a bit excessive)
Depends on your end goal but I would start by working as an engineer in any sized car company
i saw this one from Ireland on YouTube https://www.ironpig.ie/themottpedalcar