"Imagine if everyone on the sidewalk needed a 2m buffer" 2020: Hold my beer

@Aryen567

4 жыл бұрын

literally everyone had the same thought lol

@Legion849

3 жыл бұрын

This aged like fine wine

"imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2 meter buffer" Hmmmmmmmmm

@FrozenBusChannel

4 жыл бұрын

cOrOnAvIrUs

@dazza2350

3 жыл бұрын

Get it guys because the funny pandemic

@renderproductions1032

2 жыл бұрын

|-O-|

3:10 Imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2-meter buffer. Well, we're finding it out right now, who might have known a year ago.

@LeBonbonJames

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that

@DrJams

Жыл бұрын

Well sidewalks are wasteful because it's slower

@LegendaryZet

10 ай бұрын

​@@DrJamswhat?

@Blaze6108

3 ай бұрын

Well, with the hindsight over your hindsight, this is no longer an issue. Although I want to point out the average break between people on a car lane at the average occupancy of 1.2 is probably much much greater than 2m.

Here in the Netherlands, we have cities that have banned all cars from the city-centre. I therefore cycle to work every day. It's great for your health, and since there are no cars, I won't get struck by it or breathe in the cancerous fumes.

@EliStettner

4 жыл бұрын

Woosh

@clipit4503

4 жыл бұрын

Ben jij mark rutte dan?! :p

@slc679

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. P. Enis that is just an excuse to still use cars. Most cities are flat ifiot

@augustus331

4 жыл бұрын

@@slc679 Ehm no. They certainly aren't.

@slc679

4 жыл бұрын

Guinness Ok, London, new york, chicago, Orlando, paris, Barcelona, berlin, moscow, ottowa, ALL FLAT

So how about… driverless buses?

@msp713

5 жыл бұрын

Oslo (Norway) are starting the deployment of self-driving busses this year.

@notaplic8158

5 жыл бұрын

tod berry and don't forget Walker less sidewalks. Oh my god it killed me to say that cause I say footpath

@lazergurka-smerlin6561

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought!

@cipher9095

5 жыл бұрын

tod berry but... who will u thank then?

@predator4142

5 жыл бұрын

tod berry but u wont be able to thank the bus driver.

Self driving roads. You step on it and it moves you where you want. It wouldn't require cars or buses. Teleportation would be the best of course.

@bencns

5 жыл бұрын

vertik7 they have those in airports

@fi4re

5 жыл бұрын

So like, subways?

@notusingmyname4791

5 жыл бұрын

yeah but if multiple people teleport to the same place at the same time you have what used to be called spawn fragging.

@goodmito

5 жыл бұрын

They have those in roblox

@shubbyshabaas

4 жыл бұрын

What if two people step on it, and both of them want to go to different places?

From a programming perspective, a self driving bus or train or tram is infinitely easier to implement than cars because of preplanned routes and just have to focus on seeing only 2 or 3 directions rather than all directions

I like when he said “You’ll watch and lay back while generating ad revenue for me.”

"And speaking of Segway's.." oof

@Nizamkhai

5 жыл бұрын

Linus' guy detected 🤣

@element1192

3 жыл бұрын

*segways

@TS_Mind_Swept

3 жыл бұрын

@@element1192 *ur mom

“But some day the steering wheel will fade into history like Jell-O Salad and these weird coasters,The elderly and disabled...”

@defaultmesh

5 жыл бұрын

gotta get dem immortality, boi

@rz4109

5 жыл бұрын

HAL 9000 yeah I thought it was funny because at first without hearing the pause I thought that’s what he meant, listing more things that would fade into history. Besides, quotes are corrupted so often nowadays it’s easy to do.

@HAL-dm1eh

5 жыл бұрын

Oh my bad. Comment deleted.

@UsernameInvalidTHIS

5 жыл бұрын

'CAUSE WE'RE JUST GONNA KILL 'EM!

@bibasik7

5 жыл бұрын

Floppy disks 💾 Save buttons 💾 Weird coasters 💾 Illuminati confirmed?

Polymatter:Instead of racing to work, you’ll sit back, relax and generate ad revenue for me. Adblock: I don’t think so.

@Rashed-bx4xi

4 жыл бұрын

Z7RAGE you’re also here

@Z7RAGE

4 жыл бұрын

Rashed3030 looks like

@Iamwolf134

4 жыл бұрын

I run Brave the web browser, by the way, which is essentially Google Chrome with Ad blocking capabilities built in.

@KiwiMaker

4 жыл бұрын

It doesnt block all the in video ads that he voices.

@ameenhaider2202

3 жыл бұрын

I think that is funny

Here in Russia we are battling the same problem. We once had the whole of Moscow city centre given away to parking. Now, with the the new mayor, we have payed parking everywhere and the spare space has been turned green and given to the people. The businesses saw a huge increase in profits where it has been done.

I would welcome self-driving cars just to have time to watch more Polymatter videos!

@Starbrahan72

5 жыл бұрын

Didn´t expect to see you here

@Starbrahan72

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@thomaspeputofules8471

5 жыл бұрын

Kiss up!

@TwoBitDaVinci

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

@HKashaf

5 жыл бұрын

Obviously the author has a clear bias for cars. We don't need more public sharing of anything specially not public transit. Anytime a new neighborhood is built public transit is often last to arrive, costing millions in additional tax Revenue to local public , also it heavily subsidized. Cars and gas both generate revenue for government that bikers or pedestrians don't. Lastly and the most importantly, when analyzing future transportation or considering urban design for whatever reason everyone omits this one assumption. Fully autonomous cars would drive about 2-3x faster than normal traffic, it think it might be higher. We do this with internet all the time. You can't always make the pipeline bigger or add more capacity but you optimize the traffic by moving it faster. So in practical terms, 2hr commute becomes 30-45 minutes just by moving the traffic faster. The true impediment to speed is not cars or highways, it always drivers. Some people want to drive at posted speed some don't. Some people just have to slow down and look at crash on the on coming traffic. Distraction, variation in driver skill level, location and geographic awarenesses of the driver are some of the factors that considerably slow the commute and pollute the cities. 18 wheelers trucks don't have to travel during the day. Fully autonomous vehicles would revolutionize the traffic and minimize the congestion to an unbelievable extent so much so that we wouldn't have to action much else, IMHO.

Safer than cars, faster than cars, smoother than cars, no traffic, autonomous, affordable. Sounds like a modern rail transit system. These self driving cars are already obsolete, aren't they?

@luongmaihunggia

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

'Imagine if everyone on the sidewalk needed a 2 meter/metre buffer." Half the comments: OMG 2020 COVID HAHAHA FUNNY WORD

8:35 - "Instead of fighting the homeless, maybe fighting homelessness" Many good points in this video, but this one hit me hard

@maximusm0104

3 жыл бұрын

You dont fight homelessness. You have to let it die on its own. Building more homeless shelters and free healthcare bullshit, will only increase the number of homeless people you know..

@neilsimmons8338

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximusm0104 You do NOT know what you are talking about and you have no facts to back up your silly statement. Watch this video and educate yourself please. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmhl0sd6nNXRd9o.html

@fixafix69

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximusm0104 Lmao love it when people catch on your speaking bullshit and actually prove how much misinformation you're spreading

@augustuslunasol10thapostle

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximusm0104 not only is that factually wrong that's bullshit

@maximusm0104

3 жыл бұрын

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle that video doesmt disprove my point that to eradicate homelessness you have to cut it off at the legs. Again: if you continue to take the tax dollars of hard workers, and build homeless shelters.. will the homeless population go up or down? If you have an ugly plant in your garden, you dont take water from the other plants and give it to the one that is ugly😂. Besides homeless people have so many more problems than housing: most are uneducated, lack skills, under developed mentally, alcoholic, drug addicted, chronic pain, have no family, have no aim. Lack of money, is like 1 problem out of 50. And the druggies ( free money is the last thing you want to give them)

"And speaking of segways..." You're so good at these XD

@DeFlekkie

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that was brilliantly executed 😀

@yattasuccess9212

5 жыл бұрын

@DeFlekkie And do you know what else is Brilliantly executed? Brilliant, the...

@magmoner

5 жыл бұрын

He's almost like Linus with his segways

@K12LearningCoach

5 жыл бұрын

segues

@L0g1c21

5 жыл бұрын

Cleanest transfer of ideas I’ve seen in a really long time

What about self-driving Toyota Corollas? Oh wait, wrong channel.

@AxemanMessiah

5 жыл бұрын

RealLifeLore Lmaooo

@Olliebobalong

5 жыл бұрын

Iris Arc scotty ? 😂😂

@69elchupacabra69

5 жыл бұрын

What's the origin of this meme. I've been seeing it even in Wendover's videos.

@69elchupacabra69

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@elie3423

5 жыл бұрын

rev up your Corolla 💨🚗

You should do a video on solving homelessness. Great content btw

@Darkdaej

4 жыл бұрын

The solution is far simpler (but far more complex) than any bureaucrat might think: Homeless people have one big problem: No support network. They have no families to take care of them. If they did, they wouldn't be homeless... So are they homeless...or familyless?

@guilhermesartorato93

4 жыл бұрын

@@Darkdaej Most of them are _feckless_ and made the live of their families a nightmare in the past. They stole stuff from their own family dozens of times, "borrowed" money from every single relative, friend and neighbour, they ever have a good excuse for not looking for a job or for quitting a job in the first weeks, they act as drama queens under criticism and play mind games when about to be abandoned. It takes *years* to screw your family/friend network up like this but someday no one will tolerate your manipulation or let you sleep in their couch/attic/basement because your entire network becomes more than convinced that you're beyond redemption. And there's that minority of mentally troubled people, and people who _refuse_ to go home because there's too much family drama.

@upincloud244

4 жыл бұрын

Unsolvable globally, maybe possible within your nation though.

@jwarmstrong

4 жыл бұрын

The courts said don't lock up the mentally ill so they are on the street w/ their drugged friends or in jail. My city gives free meals & showers everyday since their money is gone after the first week then they sleep under bridges & at churches in winter.

@jwarmstrong

4 жыл бұрын

@Tastic 8734 they squat in vacant buildings so they have free rent -

"Imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2m buffer" Woah.

Can you make a video about urbanization and suburbanization sometime in the future? I feel like there's a lot to be explored there

@PolyMatter

5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to do more urban-planning/transportation topics in the future, but not sure which ones yet

@JarrodBaniqued

5 жыл бұрын

PolyMatter The Houston bus network redesign in 2015? Designing for ridership first is a very valuable lesson for transit planners.

@myiLLmind

5 жыл бұрын

the unrecognized harm of zoning on things like residential and retail rent affordability, environment, social connection from being more isolated or connected to things based on a city's land use rules, to just how much we enjoy planned cities to more organic ones. You can compare american cities with places like Tokyo

@LeCorbussyeir

5 жыл бұрын

@@PolyMatter Do a video on why cities require a central agency like Transport for London on the multiple works that they perform, and how efficiently they micromanage everything

@coweatsman

4 жыл бұрын

The recipe for suburbs is really simple. Take a city and add energy. That's all. The city will overflow into suburbs except if blocked by geography or zoning laws. Even then such a barrier, man made or natural can be over come by more energy in the form of heroic technology in the case of geographic barriers or money in the case of zoning laws, to grease the hands of law makers, and money is really a token of energy expenditure obligations. So a pressurised vessel can be overcome by more pressure, natural or political. To remove or reduce suburbanisation, limit the energy input making the suburbs possible and cities will reorganise themselves accordingly. With less energy political pressure will not have the same steam to influence zoning laws either. It's all an energy equation. Human society is a collective energy processing organism.

Actually Singapore is a really great example of good public transport and more toll on road when there is more traffic. Cars are also very expensive causing most people to settle for the cheap yet effective public transport system

@YHWHsam

5 жыл бұрын

WD 40 ya that works because is a SUPER dense city state (correct me if I’m wrong) Due to the borders, everyone has to be compact.

@phils4634

5 жыл бұрын

Malaysia is heading in this direction too - excellent, cheap, frequent and reliable public transport. Still plenty of bikes, but I note not so many cars, and a reduction in congestion. Penang is certainly leading the way to make buses far more attractive.

@PrograError

5 жыл бұрын

tho in malaysia it's mostly the major cities... the smaller cities and towns doesn't get much benefit from that...

@pokemanpaul8284

5 жыл бұрын

@@phils4634 reliable? HA. When I went to KL for a vacation, my family had to waste about an hour just to get tickets for the MRT. The machine refused to work. Also, I had an Uber driver tell me about a time when he spent 2 hours waiting for a bus. The driver kept skipping his stop cuz no passengers want to get off there. Imo Singapore beats Malaysia 10 to 1 when it comes to transport. Although Malaysia has more variety of malls and entertainment.

@cooperp6429

5 жыл бұрын

So the only way to make public transport better is making cars unaffordable, not viable? So basically it's like stealing your freedom of free movement? Great.

The problem with driverless cars though are not to be underestimated: hacking, lack of skills when necessary and the fact that they are a judicial and ethicals nightmares when inevitable tragedies happen are examples

@sakariaskarlsson634

5 жыл бұрын

Paolo Fumarola nah i dont think so, in fact i think it will make it easier, these machines when finished will have almost no reaction time needed at all, wont ever be affected by tiredness or other things, if they hit something or someone it really was unavoidable, and nobody is to be blamed, unless the tech is unsafe then its on the company, or have been modified in an unsafe way, then its on the modifyer, all in all much less complicated than with human drivers

@Giruno56

3 жыл бұрын

@@sakariaskarlsson634 what if they do make a mistake? What if there is a problem in the software? The Titanic was unsinkable after all.

@LegendaryZet

10 ай бұрын

​@@Giruno56There likely will be. However, all they will need is to cause many times less accidents than humans would. Maybe like 5 times. Once they pass that threshold then it matters far less. Sure a faulty program or deficient part can happen, but it will happen more in humans. Since humand cause 5 times more accidents due to reaction time, exhaustion and driving under influence self driving cars will be better. Even if you are a good driver who is safe and well rested, doesn't matter. You still have a higher chance to fuck up than a self driving car. It is far easier to better a program than billions of people.

3:35 - I learned this when I upgraded the roads (or just used the widest option) in Simcity and Cities: Skylines.

@bartholomewdan

2 жыл бұрын

"The only way to solve traffic in Cities:Skylines is to make it so that no one in their right mind would ever want to drive in the first place" - Confucius

@CadetGriffin

2 жыл бұрын

"I know not with what types of stick or stone World War IV will be fought, but World War V will be fought in the comments below." - Sun Tzu

The “rich” drive cars? No the rich are the ones who can afford to live so close to work that walking or biking is an option, and then enforce zoning and building limitations to keep real estate prices high enough to keep the poors out.

@olaruud9366

5 жыл бұрын

This... Unless you make loads of money or inherit big sums you can hardly afford to live in many city centers, and the proletariat will have to live in tiny rat cages or commute with cars.

@adamhale6672

5 жыл бұрын

If you’re talking about America and you’re correct. Much of Europe is the same way, but in many countries a car is still a luxury

@Danquebec01

5 жыл бұрын

Uh, here in Montréal at least it’s cheaper to live close (not in, but close) to the city center and go there by public transit or bicycle rather than live far and use a car. But you get to have a bigger house and a lawn if you live further.

@EileenTheCr0w

5 жыл бұрын

@@olaruud9366 I'd rather commute and actually have a large nice house in the suburbs that costs less than half of their apartment with double the room and a private pool. Lol.. living downtown only makes sense imo if you're extra wealthy so you have an enormous apartment (like owning your own floor in a luxury tower). Those chumps paying 400k-1mil for a 1000 sqft apartment could practically have a mansion if they were willing to commute 20 minutes.

@qncsc

5 жыл бұрын

do you know any rich people? they do NOT bike or walk. *_like 0_*

In europe they don't have a minimum parking limit, but a maximum.

@noneofyourbusiness6269

5 жыл бұрын

yes and parking sucks here

Thank you for making this. The word really needs to get spread that we should use public transit or vehicles like bikes and skateboards rather than keep looking to the car as the best transportation.

@yashagrawal88

3 жыл бұрын

Right.

8:00 love that mini metro reference 😃

There's something wet need much more than Public Transit. We need a large innovation in urban housing so the middle and lower income people can afford to live comfortably close to work.

@morosis82

5 жыл бұрын

Won't disagree with that. I lived in London for a while, and it was actually odd for me to see very poor people living next to very rich people, though of course they both work in roughly the same area, geographically, so it makes sense. What I mean by rich and poor: I lived in an old council flat (very comfortable, but basic) with zero parking facilities, mostly full of working class people and ~100m down the road, turn left, I could walk down the entire street without passing a single house that didn't have a Rolls, Maserati, Lamborghini or some such car in the driveway. And by house, I mean literally every single house was $6m+.

@christianlibertarian5488

5 жыл бұрын

It is not urban housing that is the issue. It is the location of work. As long as employers insist on having locations in city centers, the closer in areas will have a greater desirability, and thus a higher price. While Metropolitan Detroit is probably the worst example of city life in the Western World, the one thing it has is a dispersal of work places. Housing prices are therefore very low, even in the most expensive suburbs.

@morosis82

5 жыл бұрын

@@christianlibertarian5488 urban planning is the key. We will always have city centres where there is a need of business to be close to other businesses or major transport links, but having quality high speed public transport access from further out for those who work the service jobs in the city, and plenty of well distributed business districts throughout the metro area is a good way to combat the extreme prices we see in the biggest cities. Also, making sure infrastructure and facilities are close to where people live - I live within 10km of the CBD, takes me 15mins to drive with no traffic, but i ride because there's a great bikeway a couple KMs from my house. Apart from work, there is literally everything I need for my entire life within 5km of my house - 2 major shopping centres, several vehicle yards, furniture shops, gyms, pools, schools, cafes, restaurants, even a couple of bike shops, all sorts of services, etc. Hell, there's even a shooting range within 10km if that's your thing, though that's unusual.

@christianlibertarian5488

5 жыл бұрын

@@morosis82 I strongly disagree. It is the very rare business that benefits from being in a high cost neighborhood, other than those that need a prestigious address. Factories certainly don't benefit from being in city centers. Retail is better located near where people live, or pass by. Urban planners would concentrate amenities, making everything from the cost of a cup of coffee to nearby rents much more expensive. Better urban planning would be to get an excellent, dispersed road grid, not a highly concentrated rail system. Bikes will never be a viable transit system. Wind, rain, snow, ice and cold, and non-access for the young or old makes any such suggestion foolish.

@morosis82

5 жыл бұрын

@@christianlibertarian5488 the offices of big business, where they need access to thousands of highly skilled workers - it's best to have those centrally located as there are relatively fewer workers and they will be more highly dispersed throughout the suburbs. Banks, mining companies, electronics and software, major law firms, etc. Then you need the services to service those workers. As for bikes, except for the *very* young and the *very* old, and those who are severely disabled, you're wrong. The Dutch do it in all weather conditions, and it wasn't always that way they just decided to plan their cities that way a few decades ago. Add ebikes and cargo bikes, there are even some good options for people with disabilities given decent infrastructure, and you have a recipe for success. Admittedly I ride fast, but my 14km ride to work takes as long as driving the car in traffic, and can even be shorter if there is an accident, or you count the time to park near the office and walk. And that doesn't even touch cost - vs driving I would save at least $4k a year on my bike, enough to buy two nice bikes, one for fair weather and one for foul. Can't remember the last time I didn't ride due to weather, and we get tropical storms regularly during summer.

I love that Mini Metro reference

@PolyMatter

5 жыл бұрын

Hey - someone saw it!

@uHnodnarB

5 жыл бұрын

Same!! It's an awesome game and one of my favorites!

@Cheshiremd

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@supercellex4D

5 жыл бұрын

im like, wondering how that happened

@andrewtucker94

5 жыл бұрын

Lynn, I'm not driving a Mini Metro.

Solution: self-driving buses and mini-van that can hold several people will be cheaper than family cars that can hold five. As such, many people will probably decide to pay less if the difference in service is just more privacy and slightly higher speed. Also self-driving cars will pretty much solve the parking problem, since they can be continually reused to bring people around and stored in some underground compact and efficient garage when the passengers are few, during night for example. However, I fully agree about prioritizing walking and cycling possibilities, especially for short distance travels.

@johnmonk9167

5 жыл бұрын

Where would I put my car seats?

@astraldragon5483

5 жыл бұрын

when people talk about making "public transportation"/"shared cars" the only things available and try to push people towards them i just laugh. you're not getting rid of traffic, you're just changing the form traffic takes and it is just as bad (or even worse) for your travel time (and privacy). in public transportation/"shared cars" you can't leave/go whenever you want, your departure from anywhere is now restricted to when the vehicle arrives, you could now be unable to get to work on time/etc. literally getting anything done would now take even longer because you are restricted by the schedule of the public transportation or "shared cars". if you wanted to go to a convenience store or a restaurant or a friend's house down the street, and the travel time in your personal car is 5 minutes, your travel time would be 30-45 minutes in public transport or shared cars (or even longer) because you now have to wait for every single other person in the vehicle to arrive at wherever they are going first along the way.

@astraldragon5483

5 жыл бұрын

"many people will probably decide to pay less if the difference in service is just more privacy and slightly higher speed" citation needed, many people don't use public transportation because no one wants to be in a vehicle with random people, and most people don't want to (or can't afford) have their schedule destroyed and having every single part of travel time INCREASED because you can't leave/go anywhere you want when you are restricted by the arrival/departure times of shared vehicles and your travel time for EVERYTHING is increased by having to eait for the vehicle to make a stop for every single other passenger. this literally does nothing to solve the problem of traffic or long travel times.

@BlackGateofMordor

5 жыл бұрын

@@astraldragon5483 You fundamentally misunderstand what urban planners want. First off, a train is the replacement for 1000 cars on the highway occupying far less space. Buses and trams are similarly good. But the ultimate point is that instead of building a suburb of housing with tiny areas of commerce, you build mixed zoned cities. You shouldn't be comparing a five minute drive to a ten minute bus, you should be walking two minutes past all the other shops after you've left your apartment. The American Dream of a house, picket fence and car is dead. The cities need to catch up.

@Tezzeen

5 жыл бұрын

​@@astraldragon5483 I agree that shared cars are a bad idea. Even self driving ones when it comes to congestion. But public transportation like buses, trams subways and trains with a walkable city is the key for building a sustainable city with good transportation abilites. Many cities in Europe do this very well thanks to their old city cores which are dense. While the more west you go in north america the worse the sprawl, congestion and pollution gets.

This is why I live in a small city. I enjoy my cars too much to be told what I can and can't do with it. I have nothing against large cities, I actually love visiting them, but if I lived there, I wouldn't own a car. A scooter or motorcycle would do.

Maybe more people will want to use public transportation when it stops being a glorified pack of sardines of wheels/rails.

@grainos5

5 жыл бұрын

What's that profile pic? Looks cool!

@puppeli

5 жыл бұрын

Also the price and how much waiting you have to do. For example my last job. If i used a bicycle, my daily commute would be 1 hour 20 minutes. But if i used the bus, my commute would be 2 to 5 hours a day (depending on the day of the week and if it was winter).

@ihazdaforks

5 жыл бұрын

Mursku Xenos Why would ever catch the bus then? If I catch the train to work, it takes me 57 mins plus 15 mins of walking. If I drive it takes me 40mins-100mins plus a 6 min walk. Driving depends on peak hour and if it's there's an event or public holiday, the train however is always the same, never takes longer.

@gareththompson2708

5 жыл бұрын

Public transportation works great in countries where it is actually prioritized and funded. It is shit in the U.S. because our transportation network is laser focused on cars.

@TwoDollarGararge

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry no I love my car love my freedom built her myself she's a great car

wow, a cgpgery video within polymatter video, i need another video to reference this vid

@PrograError

5 жыл бұрын

and minimetro while at it...

@AndreiThuler

5 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome. Someone should ask grey.

@mirzaahmed6589

5 жыл бұрын

Grey, not gery.

@TheNinetySecond

3 жыл бұрын

Well, City Beautiful sent me here in a discussion of free transit, so...

"When you are a programmer everything looks like ruby on rails" lol😂

@yash1152

3 жыл бұрын

2:02 what did that mean though?? is ruby on rails good language??

“We need less regular drivers” Jay Leno, Jermey Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and every classic car owner dislikes that.

@TheNinetySecond

3 жыл бұрын

They can go suck the exhaust of a classic.

Urban planners hate suburbs - explains a lot

8:00 nice mini metro reference

@evansharafuddin2551

5 жыл бұрын

TheFlobby lol

@macstainless

5 жыл бұрын

Glad I wasn’t the only person to catch that.

@generalkitten2100

5 жыл бұрын

scrolled too far to find this

4:47 that chart reminded me of something half as interesting would cite

Everyone talks about car sharing, electric cars, etc. but they only focus on the big cities. What should the still about 50% of the people not living in the cities do? There is no good infrastructure for EVs, car sharing wouldn't work out... Everyone is just forgetting about that. My solution for this would be hydrogen cars, but that trend idea seems to have come to an end too.

@MissBunny850

5 жыл бұрын

Mei Grafd Vodder yeah I remember it was quiet news but news all the time that Hydrogen was the future... turns out it just costs to darn much still. I also remember being at Texas A&M university back in like 2005 and there was an article in the news that they had made some kinda breakthrough where they could get like over 100mpg in a car. Wish I had kept that paper or had seen a update where it was proven false.

@DaffyDuck007

5 жыл бұрын

Hydrogen was NEVER meant to actually work- it was phony solution presented by the car companies in response to the backlash they received over ending their EV research and manufacturing in the early 2000s. As for transportation in rural areas, the solution is 100 years old- electric street cars in town and high speed rail going into the big cities. The infrastructure costs are incredibly cheap compared to redesigning the entire landscape for EV, much more efficient, safer, and evironment-friendly, but we all know the Big 3, Big Oil, the airline industry, and the highway lobby would never allow for us to truly realize the potential of reviving rail in America.

@coweatsman

4 жыл бұрын

The problem with hydrogen is that you have to make it. The easiest source is from fossil fuels but that doesn't make any sense because it's easier to make petrol and diesel from oil than hydrogen. Or you could make hydrogen fuel from water but where are you going to get the enormous amounts of energy needed for that? Whatever energy source is used to split H from O2 could be more efficiently used to electrically move a car. Plus hydrogen is a gas. To carry it you would have to pressurise it or cool it to liquid form. The first is a massive explosion waiting to happen and the second is energy expensive and thus just very expensive.

@Iamwolf134

4 жыл бұрын

@@coweatsman How about HHO generators in the suburban home?

@coweatsman

4 жыл бұрын

@@Iamwolf134 You still need energy to make less energy. Hydrogen becomes the battery store for a smaller amount of energy. H2 is not an energy source.

Poly matter makes deserves so many more subscribers his content is super quality

@DeadDamsel

5 жыл бұрын

Harry li What?

@migvelv

5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever had a dream...

@glebmarchenko5233

5 жыл бұрын

My explanation of self-driving cars kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4qNsspunsTWmbA.html

@brucenadeau1280

5 жыл бұрын

Base on this video I do not think so where I live the store I can walk to charges 4.75 for a pact of cookies , drive to our Wal mart only cost me 2.25 for same size and same brand

3:34 No hate but why left the bottom left corner?

@mavrx3176

5 жыл бұрын

man you really dove into that. I was thinking he just said fuck it

Wow, wow, wow. I have to admit, this was honestly a very interesting video, it changed my perspective on self driving cars completely. Imagine how much more efficient we could get if we cut 4 lanes per road, that is 2 lanes on each sides for parking and 1 lane for a way on both directions, you could transform that into 2 lanes of bicycles and 2 lanes of commuting (streetcars, buses, etc.). It is honestly a marvelous idea!

Sim City professionals have long switched to cities skylines XD

8:26 white collar, blue collar I see what you did there

@digitalcyclone7218

5 жыл бұрын

i don't

@memefeed2147

5 жыл бұрын

which is weird because blue collars can get rich too

@digitalcyclone7218

5 жыл бұрын

can you explain the joke or reference or whatever? +Facts Feelings

@memefeed2147

5 жыл бұрын

@@digitalcyclone7218 white collars are like desk jobs or work that *isn't* physically demanding and blue collars are like construction workers, physically demanding work, theres an false perception that white collars are the only ones who can get rich like shown in the video at that timestamp

@digitalcyclone7218

5 жыл бұрын

+Facts Feelings Oh, damn, I didn't know those were a thing lol

Nah nah, bikes are mechanically much more efficient that ur feet

@m.burgesszbikowski8049

5 жыл бұрын

NUMBERQ1 . Not if you are hit by the 1,000 lb. car, driving on your road!

@damapan

4 жыл бұрын

but they still need space to be stored and effort to be maintained

@emilyblack7342

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, until you get to an uphill

@yash1152

3 жыл бұрын

@@damapan dont people need space and effort?? uhm, just saying.

*does russian accent: In soviet Russia, car drive YOU!! oh wait....

@theDigited

4 жыл бұрын

Which is more funny because the video shows Russian railway station and trains.

@mihan2d

4 жыл бұрын

@@theDigited Well, Russia does have relatively heavy incentive on public transit. In fact, in Moscow, where I live, the current transport system development strategy matches "the optimal solution" described in the video to an uncanny degree (that's because we learned what overcrowded roads mean, with pointlessly widening roads and cutting down of all the mass transit used by 70% for the sake of the 30% of car owners, the hard way - through almost three decades of incompetent city management prior to 2010).

The sole dependency on Internet for transportion functions scares me, what would happen if it all went down electricity isn't a constant. I don't trust being on the road and my life on machines that still clumsy. I don't think in future machines can become less clumsy some issues will happen in these cars. Bad server connection. The machine is just being weird and needs to be restarted in mid road. There's a bug that's slowing things down. It sounds like minor frustrations that I can avoid by just grabbing the wheel and driving myself. I trust my own actions and reactions to be faster and consistent to that of a machine.

@morosis82

5 жыл бұрын

Your trust would be misplaced. The main difference at the moment is adaptability, but that will come. You say consistent, but machines never get tired, never drink, are always watching. You might think you're a safe driver, as do I, but I sure as shit want other people in autonomous cars because there are some truly awful drivers out there on the road putting my life at risk. Plus, none of these autonomous machines actually use internet for transport - it's all onboard, and the systems use fail safe mechanisms. Some of them do use internet connections for mapping and routing, but they don't have to (can cache onboard). Your other examples happen right now to non autonomous cars. BMW's catching fire, Jeeps that won't turn off cruise control, all manner of stuff that maims and kills people.

@Elias___

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKCWqsegZ7ichMY.html this video detailed my issues with self driving cars in better ways than I could.

@scowler92

5 жыл бұрын

What about CYBER-TERRORISM? You need a neural net to make sure these cars work, and that means internet.

@Xhxh29

5 жыл бұрын

@@scowler92 it does not mean that

8:26, the white and blue collar bit is cheeky.

When cars can drive themselves, people will want to be either productive or entertained during the commute, not stuck in a tiny seat. Winnebago for everyone, or at least limousines. Traffic will get worse. Also, we already have cars you don't have cars you don't have to drive, they're called taxis (or uber/lyft). Problem is, they are not as convenient as your own car, ready for you at a moments notice.

@ispartacus1337

4 жыл бұрын

You're basically describing the subway or a train... lol

Im now 13 years and i want to drive a car when i get older.

@TheLingo56

5 жыл бұрын

It ain't that cool living with the nearly forced responsibility of needing to operate a moving death machine that costs a ton and could potentially ruin your life if you or someone else mildly screws up.

@LooperEpic

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, it is.

@TariqNavabiGaming

4 жыл бұрын

TheLingo56 Yea it’s such a stupid system. Ur car taps another and barely scratches it and u cough up a couple hundred bucks and ur insurance gets involved🙄 in Afghanistan when ppl crash they just apologize, handle their business privately and decide what to do, and then leave 😂 cuz cars there aren’t rented, they’re just bought once and done no more payment. But that wouldn’t work here cuz road rage and stuff

What a great video. The simple explanations and visuals are perfect. Speaking of, do you make all your visuals yourself? How do you edit your videos?

"Instead of fighting the homeless, fight homelessness." Wiser words have never been said.

@neonicplays

4 жыл бұрын

Awwww, I wanna scrap with the poor

@n0username0n

4 жыл бұрын

Wiser words would be Shocking homeless fights Is it homeless fights that are shocking? Or homeless who happen to have the ability to shock opponents whilst fighting? And before we go there, yes its an issue that needs a solution and yes i probs seem like a cunt butttttttttt a jokes a joke right? Aha

@VineFynn

4 жыл бұрын

Yes they have.

@rhodesianwojak2095

4 жыл бұрын

lollll

"Imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2 metre buffer" That is no longer imaginary but reality.

These videos only get better!! So happy I found this channel almost a year ago!

3:14 that comment didn't age well

I'd think that one of the greatest reduction of cars will be building more mix use buildings. That's how it was 100+ years ago, everything one could ever need was just a 20min walk from their homes.

@C0deH0wler

5 жыл бұрын

Cars are just solving the problem they create. Now it takes 20min to drive to work, instead of walking 20min to work :(

@daleinaz1

5 жыл бұрын

Try walking 20 minutes in Phoenix all summer when it's 93 degrees (F) at 8AM and 112 at 5PM. Or Minneapolis all winter when it's a HIGH of 2. Driving 20 minutes in either city is reasonable, walking 20 minutes is brutal.

@morosis82

5 жыл бұрын

Dale, only because we're all lazy. I ride in all weather in Brisbane, Australia, where we have both the heat and the humidity. Granted because I travel 30mins at speed I actually wear riding clothes and change, but living a tad closer or using an e-bike would solve that issue. Actually looking at getting a proper utility ebike, as most of our daily trips are within a couple km's of home.

When cars are gone trucks will still be need roads to move freight from stores, warehouses to homes & businesses. Also police , ambulances & fire trucks unless they ride bikes too...

@SdoubleA

3 жыл бұрын

This. People don't understand this. They cut the road sizes in my area until trucks literally couldn't move. I laugh when trucks are literally unable to get through and deliver their freights.

@dbclass4075

3 жыл бұрын

At least those vehicles are filled at least half of their capacity, and driven as intended. On average, occupancy mode average is between one and two, barely half of a typical saloon car, let alone an SUV that has been stupidly modified with low-profile tyres (removes its off-road capability). The biggest issue of road is space utilisation.

Polymatter: “Imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2 meter buffer” Me: *looks outside* hmmm

One of the greatest channels!Thank you! Maybe not so smart question, but how do you do such a cool videos? What programs do you use?

If driverless cars become a reality, driving won't be fun anymore Don't get me started on flying cars.

@1983krizz

5 жыл бұрын

Can you drift in a flying car 🤔 If not that is a dealbreaker for me

@colors1653

5 жыл бұрын

Are you saying flying god damn cars wouldn’t be fun?

@dbclass4075

2 жыл бұрын

@@colors1653 I think the bigger issue is people's ability to control them properly. They have trouble on ground, let alone the added dimension of up and down.

@dbclass4075

2 жыл бұрын

@@1983krizz Forward slip, a technique used by gliders to descend faster without increasing speed.

" Ruby on rails " I see that pun ..

Great video in describing the flaws and potential solutions

Holy moly - I've worked in public transit / city planning and am now working on self-driving cars, and this is spot on.

My question is how can you have any expectation of arriving at your initial calculated time in an autonomous car. Let’s say you get in at home type in your destination-work 35 min away and expect it to take that long. But along the way a bunch of new cars need to enter the flow of traffic that weren’t in the picture when you first got in, now all the cars slow down to allow for each of these which can compound I’m sure. Then you can factor in people changing their original destination mid trip or wanting to stop for food unplanned which causes more unforeseen changes to the overall traffic flow. This is all assuming that the cars will all talk to each other as part of one big grid.

Sam Bur was right all along, we need walkability

Rail is the best form of autonomous travel, especially subways (it's basically like flying but underground); it can basically be put anywhere and can move a ton of people - in London mixing walking with the tube makes travelling easy, when trains become autonomous it will be less crowded as the trains can be closer together and boost the capacity.

I've noticed that London and York don't really have this problem. It was easy to walk around in York and Londons congestion charge works great

I got great idea: self driving people

So basically, the only solution to have something better than cars, is to make it impossible for cars to be viable? In Europe they are already heavily taxed, and yet, people use it instead of buses. I'd say the real reason is that bicycles and other similar vehicles sound great, but just doesn't work all year. Buses and other forms of public transport are just unreliable and if you have to change lines it just takes vastly more time. So the only solution to push people to use public transport is to make parking impossible :D Great future... Not the better alternative wins, but the one that has an unfair advantage...

@SouthCountyDreaming

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that the author doesn't factor in all of the subsidies that already go to public transit. LA has spent billions on its metro system only to see ridership go down because when it's 103 degrees out, no one wants to wait at a bus stop. This is a dystopian future where we are rammed into crowded metal boxes and brainwashed into thinking this is what we want.

@raney150

5 жыл бұрын

Public transportation doesn't have to be unreliable. Also, you just can't accommodate every car in a major city. I'd much rather have something like Chicago or New York than some suburb. It is more walkable, so I walk more. Taking the train is a stress free (at least here in Chicago) way of getting to and from work. During rush hour, I actually probably come out ahead of people driving when you consider the time to find parking and walk from your parking spot. At least, during rush hour. It isn't handicapping cars so much as it is making a more enjoyable system for pedestrians.

@brucenadeau1280

5 жыл бұрын

@Azure Dragon the irrational ideal that I control where I go and when

@brucenadeau1280

5 жыл бұрын

@@raney150 I still like the freedom of driving because I do not have to wait in the hot in summer and freezing cold in winter just to have the bus drive pass me by because they may not have room to put the bench waiting by sign if have book kill the time waiting

@crytocc

5 жыл бұрын

Bicycles seem to work fine "all year" here in the Netherlands. Of course there are areas in the world where eg. snow gets so bad in winter that it's not viable, but there are large chunks of the world where that isn't a problem. There's a similar problem with your "public transport is unreliable" comment - that's entirely down to the degree of funding and the required standards from the government. It's quite reliable here, to the point that I have neither a driver's license nor a car, and can still get to most places without much hassle.

I have an idea! One person car.

@GLee-oe3op

5 жыл бұрын

That would kill the planet faster than you can blink

How do you animate your videos?

I feel like sometimes you are giving "too much" of a priority to certain things without considering the other side. For example, you said that cities should promote walking instead of driving by creating an incentive. If people in close proximity to their destination just choose to walk or bike over driving or taking the bus, less pollution is produced and less space is occupied. However, it might take someone 5 minutes to go to X location by car, and it will take 20 minutes to walk. Why is the time not taken into consideration? Time is a resource. In addition, the idea of creating an "incentive" for walking is not as easy as you make it seem. You simply cannot increase the price of parking. I have a 3+ hour daily commute a day. If I walk, it will convert my commute into 16+ hours a day commute. Will cities penalize people for living far? Its just that some of the things you are saying are very very easy to SAY. However, some of these things are impossible to execute in the way you propose.

@HW1099Tube

5 жыл бұрын

Your example is based on wrong assumptions. You don't only have to walk, or only take the car. Drive with your car to the P+R at the train station, take the train into the city center and then take a short tram ride to work and then walk from the station into your office. "You simply cannot increase the price of parking" Why? Renting a 13,5m² space in the middle of a densely populated city, just to park you metal box on, for 2€ a day is such a weird concept and such a waste of space.

@Pintroll300

4 жыл бұрын

Danyal A. If the cities had been designed and managed effectively to begin with, you and countless others wouldn’t have to live so far from your place of work at all Proper city planning in terms of accessibility should emphasise walkability within the city limits, good public transport on separate intracity and intercity levels, and restrict external car traffic to the outskirts of the city, as well as this, housing should consist of mixed wealth and typology developments within quick access of services, neccessity commercial providers and transportation hubs that allow access to the intracity network Heck some cities have started banning private cars from the city centre or urban confines entirely, and focusing on only public transportation and walkability access for transport within the city itself

7:22 Thats not quite accurate. A study from 2018 showed that even 5% of autonomous cars in traffic can have tremendous beneficial impact on the traffic flow. Reference: Stern, Raphael E., et al. "Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 89 (2018): 205-221.

@MaximilienDanton

5 жыл бұрын

Stop and go waves, now I know what to call that thing that annoys the crap out of me.

@Fif0l

5 жыл бұрын

When two independent studies reach two wildly different conclusions, we don't have a conclusion at all.

@iamcleaver6854

5 жыл бұрын

I bet this study was sponsored by the same guys who sponsor driverless technology...

@cytrynowy_melon6604

5 жыл бұрын

@@iamcleaver6854 And the other study was sponsored by companies that produce public transportation vehicles

@btnt5209

5 жыл бұрын

I am a transportation researcher. Self driving cars are incredibly more efficient as they don't need to stop at traffic lights, the cars just communicate each other and scrape by in milimeters. by numbers they win clearly. as for quality of life, they aren't particularly good...

We need flying cars! Like in back to the future.

Great research, great info! I don't know if I'm disheartened or encouraged, but how we got into this mess is fascinating. Thank you PolyMatter!

2:08 As a Cities Skylines professional, I approve this.

@DogWick

5 жыл бұрын

Eccolaps DE Agreed suburbs are only good for hilltops

I agree with most of this but you can't just increase tolls to incentivize people to stop driving. If their area doesn't have a commuter rail they might have no other way to get into work and that could cause huge financial burden for them depending on how large the increase is. They'll also be less likely to change if you recommend other options, because they'll be furious about being told that they just don't know what's good for them (even if they don't). I saw it happen with a plan for efficiency at a dump in my town, everyone just got a trash collecting service (which is more expensive and wasteful to us all) because they were so upset about being told what to do.

3:11 "Imagine how wasteful sidewalks would be if everyone required a 2-meter buffer" - 2020: "Hold my beer"

8:00 MiniMetro * heartemoji *

I'm going to be that old man driving the 1986 Chevy Caprice gas guzzler in 2075

@sakariaskarlsson634

5 жыл бұрын

Well that would equal a ford model t today, you’d have to be one hell of a mecanic to pull that off, or spend an absolute fortune on parts and repair, not to mention the fact that a model t tops out at 80kmh downhill.. id expect future cars to be much faster than the present ones too, as soon as this tech shift is over, so upgrading might not be a bad thing after all

@BigRobChicagoPL

5 жыл бұрын

@@sakariaskarlsson634 Not everyone likes change, but I see your point

@wingsofpurityofficial4031

4 жыл бұрын

You would have to manufacture your own car parts as well. Eventually you would have to replace every part in whole thing, which would mean after enough time you would have a 2075 Chevy Caprice rather than a 1986 one.

@sakariaskarlsson634

4 жыл бұрын

@@AusLegoBoy maybe it is quality above quantity when it comes to friends

@alexgobin3690

4 жыл бұрын

Robert PL9501 It’ll probably be illegal to own human driven cars by 2075

Some interesting ideas in this video, but I don't really buy the narrative. For example: - Car parks for shared self-driving cars don't need nearly the space of regular car parks because we don't need to access a particular car: it's just a FIFO (First-in-First-out) stack. Even the ceilings can be much lower. - Self-driving cars integrate better with other forms of transport. I don't need to park my car all day at the train station and walk a long way to the train. I just need dropping-off maybe 10m from the train or hyperloop carriage and similar for the car at the other end. My seat in the car>train-carriage>car will have been allocated to maximise efficiency for the total travel journey. There could even be car>bus and car>car transits. - The video assumes current road infrastructure which are designed for human drivers; but there will often be opportunity in cities (where cost is justified) for an underground automated-only network. Perhaps that network wouldn't need to be very comprehensive: just in places that would avoid congestion bottlenecks. - About early adopters taking funding: as you almost hinted, funding issues could be solved with a public infrastructure pricing policy. -

@unassumingaccount395

5 жыл бұрын

"- Car parks for shared self-driving cars don't need nearly the space of regular car parks because we don't need to access a particular car: it's just a FIFO (First-in-First-out) stack. Even the ceilings can be much lower." "- Self-driving cars integrate better with other forms of transport. I don't need to park my car all day at the train station and walk a long way to the train. I just need dropping-off maybe 10m from the train or hyperloop carriage and similar for the car at the other end. My seat in the car>train-carriage>car will have been allocated to maximise efficiency for the total travel journey. There could even be car>bus and car>car transits." This idea seems more efficient than in paper at all. Why waste space on cars to bring us anywhere when we can walk/bike for less than a few hundred meters to a train or bus station? It's so inefficient to use a car just to drop you off to a train station when you can create a subway network that covers much of the city. "but there will often be opportunity in cities (where cost is justified) for an underground automated-only network. Perhaps that network wouldn't need to be very comprehensive: just in places that would avoid congestion bottlenecks." Except that building this road network will be very nonviable and inexpensive. You would be better off building a more practical subway system. - About early adopters taking funding: as you almost hinted, funding issues could be solved with a public infrastructure pricing policy. And most of these issues will make much more efficient public transport cheaper and more viable than self-driving cars.

@Croz89

5 жыл бұрын

It's a trade-off between convenience and style of living. You could live really close to the station, but that would mean a dense high rise a lot of the time. It's a way to live in low rise suburbia and not choke up the roads into the city (though local congestion around the station may be an issue).

@unassumingaccount395

5 жыл бұрын

Ralphie Raccoon That's why biking (whether motorbiking or not), and suburban rail exists.

@tsuchan

5 жыл бұрын

This idea seems more efficient than in paper at all. Why waste space on cars to bring us anywhere when we can walk/bike for less than a few hundred meters to a train or bus station? It's so inefficient to use a car just to drop you off to a train station when you can create a subway network that covers much of the city." I was really just running with the situation in the video which was talking about people commuting in from suburbs, and the referenced research on Uber customers who said they use it because it's there, cheap, etc. If you have a way of persuading people not to use a service because it's easier, affordable and 'there', that's fine. But suburbs in question could be 80km away in any direction: generally wayyy outside the reach of city subway; and your analysis is considering a very specific class of commuter: ones who live within a few hundred metres of a train or bus station for a start; and who is sufficiently able-bodied to walk/bike that distance; for a start. =KillMeWithPotato said: "Except that building this road network will be very nonviable and inexpensive. You would be better off building a more practical subway system." 'Nonviable and inexpensive' huh? I'd have thought it would be pretty expensive. Its viability probably depends on your country or city's priorities. Have you watched this video about Norway's infrastructure project to have a continuous road running around the country across all the fjiords currently served by ferries? kzread.info/dash/bejne/eneIj6iuoqm8fLQ.html It's fascinating. Anyway, if they can make the technology work then it's 'viable' as long as it has public support and funding. By contrast, in the UK, there's been bleating for a decade or more about a single railway line or a 3rd runway at the country's busiest airport, and it will be another decade or so before either one may possibly completed... if they ever are. They are much more discrete projects, with higher cost-benefit by a regular analysis; but could well be unviable because of lack of public support.

@tsuchan

5 жыл бұрын

If we're discussing stuff away from the concept of the video... you know what would really have a positive impact on cities, congestion, quality of life and the environment? Not commuting at all. There must be a huge proportion of people who are still making a daily commute of several hours, who just have no particular reason to be there at all, because they have jobs that can be done (at least for the majority of the time) at home, or in a local shared workspace. Everybody in my company has been doing that since 2001!

I wonder regularly lately if we could have some sort of people-equivalent to the standard cargo container. Some sort of box just the right size for a seat for a person that could be transported around by anything from a car-like device over a bus-like one, a train-like one, a plane-like one,... Basically decouple the propulsion (except maybe for some minimal slow one to move from the road inside a building/storage unit for the box) from the passenger cabin and standardize it so it can be transported by anything. That would also solve the problem of hygiene on public transport.

Very well done. Thank you for sharing.

Artillery only!

@petersmythe6462

5 жыл бұрын

Self-firing artillery.

Once again that brilliant transition

Well I live in the country so I need a car when I turn 17

The thing with a car is I can go where I want when I want but with trains, bus , or walking is limiting

@HW1099Tube

5 жыл бұрын

If you combine train, bus and walking and have good infrastructure, then you can also get everywhere.

I have my doubts as to whether you can convince Americans to give up on the idea of car ownership, even with most of them being driverless. This is tied into our basic culture of independence and freedom - a car that's not technically yours doesn't really give you a sense of total freedom. Chances are shared cars will come with a plethora of things you can't do to them because they need to be able to be used by somebody else. You probably won't be able to smoke in them, paint them, add turbochargers to them, etc. And when you call a shared car you might have to deal with the results of somebody who didn't follow the rules anyways - I'm allergic to smoke, but the person who used the car before I did might be a smoker and might have smoked in the car. I'd rather own my own car and just pay for gasoline (or electricity or hydrogen or whatever we use as fuel in the future). For the same reason I have to wonder if they can really convince Americans to give up the steering wheel, even on cars that are capable of being driverless. Again, it gives up that sense of freedom. What happens if I encounter a road that isn't mapped yet? What happens if I want to go offroading? What happens if I want to carry large equipment onto my lawn? What happens if there's a poorly made road that the system doesn't even recognize as a road? I'd say a good part of car ownership today really is cultural. We love freedom and don't like being shackled. With respect to safety, the vast majority of accidents can be avoided with level 3 and level 4 automation. The safety gap between level 4 and level 5 is likely very small - I'd say the difference between level 4 and 5 is largely political and cultural and will boil down to whether the benefits of removing the manual controls will truly outweigh the loss of freedom. I should also note that even with total automation vehicles designed for off-road, racing, or other unusual use would still need to have manual controls. All of that being said - I'd love for us to start moving away from needing cars so much. I'd love to see more bicycles and walking. Problem is, we're not designing cities that way and it's very, very difficult to change the structure of a city once it is built. I'd venture to say that zoning laws are likely contributing to the problem because workplaces and residential areas are being so widely separated. Hopefully in the future we can slowly evolve the design of our cities to simply not need so much driving.

@InterDimensionalLizard

5 жыл бұрын

It's important to be able to drive somewhere without requiring a computer system's cooperation or permission. I just hope that human-operated cars will still be permitted on the roads without too much hassle or shaming.

@_me-ta-_3780

5 жыл бұрын

I personally find it more freedom-like to be free of the car and be able to hop into any bus, metro, or train and pop up anywhere I want without worrying about parking, or traffic jams, or the insane amount of money it takes to own a car and keep it running. And I live in Montreal, which while having better transit than US cities (except for New York), is still not on par with Europe or Japan. But I still would never get a car.

@KF1

5 жыл бұрын

Here, where I live, a monthly bus pass is $100. My truck insurance is $77. If I take the cost (*purchase price), and divide it by the years I've owned it, it's about $60 per month. Add the two, plus gas, and the total montly cost of my truck is south of $200. So for $100 I can ride the bus, but for under $200 I can drive whenever, wherever, and the best part is that I am the one behind the wheel. I happily pay that extra $, and I definitely feel a greater sense of freedom because of it. The only time I don't feel free is during rush-hour, so I choose to take care of errands etc in the morning or evening. Cars aren't perfect, but imo they do offer greater freedom than the bus/bikelane infrastructure in my city. Especially in winter.

@wayando

5 жыл бұрын

Remember when people used horse drawn carriages? ..... I imagine no one "drove" themselves. The "prestige" of owning a car is what has brought about many of the things you speak about. But.... Why would owning a Bugatti be prestigious when all cars can travel equally fast?! And when all cars are equally luxurious, there would be no room for using a car as a status symbol! .... Meaning customizations also become instantly pointless! At that point a car just becomes like a water connection of the city.... Just something you use, that is of standardized quality... That is so high you couldn't afford it if you tried to own it alone.

@KF1

5 жыл бұрын

@Huma Prestige? yeah, that would be nice. My truck's tailgate rusted out, so I replaced it with one of those mesh tailgates. Then, feeling the mesh tailgate wasn't really my cup of tea, I replaced it with a tailgate made out of bamboo (seriously) that I fabricated, stained and lacquered. It has zero prestige, but tons of character. Most importantly, it's functional. My point is, a vehicle doesn't have to be glamorous to be enjoyable and useful. I would say that Utility is the reason for the car culture we live in, with prestige being a secondary consideration. May I ask, do you have a car, yourself? Alternatively, have you ever ridden a horse? About your last point...Let's say you're an auto manufactuerer. Are you really going to produce cars that no one person can afford? Stock holders be like: "so what's our projected sales figures to the private sector?" "um... zero. No one can afford our cars." "...maybe we should rethink our business model"

I cannot agree with this video enough. I fucking hate hearing people shoot down ideas to urbanize cities and expand and fund electric autonomous car development.

I can't wait for the day we'll have driverless flying cars. Sure, on the first day of the launch there will be a few cars that will land on a few pedestrians, get caught in trees or power lines, or a few cars that will fly into the living rooms of a few high rise apartments or some offices, but ultimately it will be a success in the end.

A driverless road network should not just use a vehicle to load a passenger from point A, drop it at point B and start again. Passengers should be able to communicate their plans in advance (not necessarily long in advance) so algorithms could plan the most cost-effective solution in real time. Commuters are very predictable and they could be managed using dynamic bus routes. Cars could be used for low-density areas where just a few passengers (maybe just dropped from buses coming from different directions) have to travel the last mile to get to their destinations.

Love the production value of your videos, keep up the good work.

Driveless train,buses are good But driving I'll do it myself instead

Amazing content, amazing channel! Keep it up :)

Cars for the country where distances are wide and public transport demand is low but everywhere else public transport and walking/cycling.

I feel that eventually, I won't have to joy of taking a driver's test

@PolyMatter

5 жыл бұрын

No worries, you'll be able to just hang out at the DMV for fun

@TommoCarroll

5 жыл бұрын

Well thank god for that! If I didn't have my weekend spot - the DMV - I don't know what I'd do!

@callanc3925

5 жыл бұрын

It would be smarter if drivers tests were still a requirement even in the age of self driving cars. What if one malfunctions? it would be a lot better if you could take control of the car and steer it off the road instead of killing a whole bunch of people. That would also raise the barrier for entry into using a self driving car potentially lowering the traffic congestion

@cutecommie

5 жыл бұрын

You still need a driver's license.

@marios1861

5 жыл бұрын

@@callanc3925 what if it malfunctions? What a dmart individual you are to think of such a unique problem. I'm sure no engineers working in self driving car development have had that though yet so no systems to prevent the outcome of that are in place!! We need to give you a Nobel prize!

In cities, you need to move transportation underground. High speed pneumatic tube systems/ or some variation of Elon Musks Sled System. We can dig way deeper than build high. This is eliminate so much congestion and noise on the ground level

@coweatsman

4 жыл бұрын

Elon is a self promoter. Thunderf00t has absolutely ripped his hyperloop idea to shreds. The metro underground is now and present already in many cities and works well. New York, London, paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and many other cities.

@onyxrafle8066

3 жыл бұрын

@@coweatsman Even if the hyperloop doesn't work multi level metros are still viable

@dbclass4075

2 жыл бұрын

@@onyxrafle8066 And under what circumstances would you justify such high speed on a service that stops too frequently?

@onyxrafle8066

2 жыл бұрын

@@dbclass4075 I was refferring to the tunneling process not the speed of the service or anything like that. If anything has come out of the boring company it's the tunneling advancements they are making

Nice video! :D Could you please raise the volume in the next ones?

Awesome Video. Keep your pace.