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by drewr 589 days ago
It's long, but well worth an hour of your time. He even states in the comments that he set out two years ago to make a positive video about AVs:

    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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0&lc=UgzN9fnItjm2b...

The future he illustrates seems mostly plausible, except that it depends on all of the technology functioning flawlessly. I have a hard time believing that streets full of high-speed AVs functioning in perfect synchrony is likely.

However, that doesn't change my general agreement with the conclusions he draws in that video and the rest of his channel.