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self-driving cars and lane splittingself-driving cars and lane splittingPosted Mar 5, 2013 11:07 UTC (Tue) by emj (guest, #14307)In reply to: self-driving cars and lane splitting by paulj Parent article: ELC: Google learns to drive
There might have been nit pickery, but it was an interesting discussion. In my view with paved roads biking 74km per day is easy, but 160km per day doesn't feel like something I would like to do more than once or twice a week. The problem with going longer distances in a straight line might be that the roads that are best for that kind of travel might be too car oriented.
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self-driving cars and lane splitting Posted Mar 5, 2013 22:19 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
paved roads are primarily a car legacy, paved roads are worse for livestock than unpaved roads as well as being very expensive to build and maintain.
Yes the Romans built paved roads, but they built them to march their infantry along, not to help commerce.
self-driving cars and lane splitting Posted Mar 6, 2013 7:36 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Modern paved roads were lobbied for and started to be built for cyclists, before the motor-car existed (other than some very rare, prototypical mechanical carriages): http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
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