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self-driving cars and lane splitting

self-driving cars and lane splitting

Posted Mar 5, 2013 22:19 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: self-driving cars and lane splitting by emj
Parent article: ELC: Google learns to drive

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.


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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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