alt.hn

12/12/2025 at 7:52:14 PM

By December 31, 02026, autonomous vehicles will be banned from public roadways (2021)

https://longbets.org/885/

by 1970-01-01

12/13/2025 at 4:13:18 AM

I have a bet with a friend that in 6 years there’ll be autonomous-only highway lanes somewhere, like HOV lanes we have today. It makes perfect sense to me. If you have part of the road where you can predict how every vehicle will act, especially if they can coordinate, you could end up with basically a high speed train of tightly packed vehicles zipping along at record traffic densities.

by kstrauser

12/13/2025 at 5:26:34 PM

It's been my belief for over 20 years now that dedicated/instrumented roads for autonomous vehicles is the only way autonomous cars will ever be a thing, at mass scale, other than via the invention of true AGI (which I still don't think we're close to). Such roads becoming a thing within the next 6 years though, I'd doubt.

by thegrim33

12/13/2025 at 5:44:53 PM

I think there might be a trial stretch of road somewhere in a few years, although surely not widespread. Such a thing feels inevitable to me, though, if we’re going to have self-driving cars at all.

by kstrauser

12/12/2025 at 7:59:14 PM

> “In five years' time, by December 31, 02026"

That leading 0 is odd.

by markx2

12/12/2025 at 8:29:45 PM

It's a "long now" thing (fetish?) that I always mock as the "medium now" because they only add one 0.

by AnimalMuppet