[pnut]

Nope. Humans are statistically fallible and their attention is too valuable to be obliged to a mundane task like executing navigation commands. Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around. Also personal agency limits public transportation as a solution.

[askl]

> Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around.

The US already did it once (just in the wrong direction) by redesigning all cities to be unfriendly to humans and only navigable by cars. It should be technically possible to revert that mistake.

[runarberg]

Unlike autonomous driving, public transit is a proven solution employed in thousands of cities around the world, on various scales, economies, etc.

> Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around.

We have been redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure since we had cities. Where I live (Seattle) they are opening a new light rail bridge crossing just next month (first rail over a floting bridge; which is technologically very interesting), and two new rail lines are being planned. In the 1960s the Bay area completely revolutionized their transit sytem when they opened BART.

I think you are simply wrong here.

[tanseydavid]

>> In the 1960s the Bay area completely revolutionized their transit sytem when they opened BART.

66 years later we see California struggling terribly with implementation of a high-speed rail system -- where the placement/location of the infrastructure largely is targeted for areas far less dense than the Bay Area.

I don't think there is any single reason why this is so much more difficult now then it was in 1960 -- but clearly things have changed quite a lot in that time.