The problem isn't autonomous vehicles, it's people whose idea of sustainable transportation is public mass transport _only_, with cars of any description seen as an evil to be avoided. And they keep producing plans saying 'look how nice our cities will be if we pedestrianize everything', never stopping to think that for some people the inaccessibility of public transport isn't the public transport system, it's the bits of the journey on either side. (Not that public transport is perfect, either)
Cars and taxis address that need, and autonomous vehicles would be just as applicable, but they do depend on there still being roads to drive them on!
The core problem is people assuming that wheelchairs can go everywhere they walk, and that all non-wheelchair users can walk a few hundred metres and that's just not the case.
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Date: 2022-06-15 01:42 pm (UTC)Cars and taxis address that need, and autonomous vehicles would be just as applicable, but they do depend on there still being roads to drive them on!
The core problem is people assuming that wheelchairs can go everywhere they walk, and that all non-wheelchair users can walk a few hundred metres and that's just not the case.