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How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars - The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently. (restofworld.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The logic with taxis is that rather than everyone have an individual car, people use them as needed, so 1 car serves dozens of people.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

A car serves maybe two people for a day. A taxi serves maybe four people in an hour. A bus serves several dozen people in an hour. A train serves hundreds of people in an hour.

I am aware that Singapore has a world class train network already, but any money spent on car infrastructure instead of train infrastructure is, if you ask me, wasted, especially in a city as dense as Singapore.