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but still the cars need to handle unusual situations even within that standardized infra.

So? You're missing the point. It'd still be miles and miles ahead of where we are today.

AND it'd still cost less money than we've spent today AND it'd keep money in the right places AND it'd provide plenty of useful jobs for people that need it.

This wasn't some hypothetical either. We had working standards and working prototypes for all of this. Congress was actually gearing up to make this a reality back around 2010. But Republicans.

It's what we in the business call a "no brainer."

Saying "it just doesn't work" when it CLEARLY did is wild.

I completely disagree. You're basically saying we should create something like an automotive/train hybrid system across the country hitting all communities in the country. That would take trillions. Like actually trillions, and it still wouldn't be good as having autonomous vehicles, because once we have autonomous vehicles, we also have autonomous aircraft and ships and all kinds of great things.

I completely disagree.

That's nice dear.

That would take trillions.

You know a lot of this was again, already figured out. Instead of making up numbers you could just go read the ITSPAC reports.

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