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Sadly, no amount of amazing self-driving AI can compensate for geometry:

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-austr...

That picture has the cars bumper to bumper, which is likely rather better than even the self-driving best case. Cars take up a lot of space.

I can imagine interesting and efficient ways to move large numbers of people that involve self-driving vehicles for part of the journey, but for high capacity at reasonable cost and space utilization, feet, bicycles, busses, trains, subways, etc are dramatically better.



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