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How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilities (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This article is the written equivalent of the soyjak pointing meme. Adds no further insight and serves only to hype up a product that does not yet exist.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It does exist, it's just trains, not cars.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trains have drivers. Also, I can either take a train out of my city or into it. I can't use a train within my city and it doesn't take me grocery shopping either. My head hurts trying to imagine how you think a train is going to replace car.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It will never replace cars for people with disabilities.

Every single person who argues this in this thread doesn't have a disability and is ignorant towards the challenges they face.

Had a family member who was disabled for 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Disabilities come in many shapes. For certain disabilities, sure a train/public transit might be inferior to cars.

However I'd say for a majority of cases, public transit is much more hospitable to disabled folks. Many disabilities make driving either impossible, massively impractical, or outright dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Many disabilities make driving either impossible, massively impractical, or outright dangerous.

This post is about autonomous vehicles, which will render this concern obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For many disabilities it's useless due to the fact you still need to get to it to use it.

They're saying both are useless for many. Not that driving is better in any way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's also a "putting water in a pot over a flame will get you hot water" article.. pretty obvious fact.