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Should cities designate special lanes for autonomous vehicles?

Special lanes for autonomous vehicles separate them from regular traffic, potentially improving safety and traffic flow. Proponents argue that dedicated lanes increase safety, enhance traffic efficiency, and encourage the adoption of autonomous technology. Opponents argue that it reduces road space for traditional vehicles and may not be justified given the current number of autonomous vehicles.

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 @9Q4B6MH from North Carolina  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but in the future when autonomous vehicles are more ubiquitous on the road

  @clbcarman answered…11mos11MO

Not if the vehicles don't have humans inside. This will increase traffic, not improve it. We need public transportation, including trains, light rail, and metro..

 @9QQF8CB from North Carolina  answered…12mos12MO

The money that would be used for this should be put towards, public transport like trains, light rail systems, metros.

 @9NHS5NN from Texas  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, this can help of safety for people and vehicles.

 @9L4Z23B  from Pennsylvania  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but this needs to be a locally led initiative

 @8XLR4JX  from North Carolina  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but in the future when autonomous cars are more ubiquitous on the road

 @B5YDH2Gfrom Guam  answered…4 days4D

Yes, only if the said autonomous vehicles become more and more common and are on par with regular cars.

 @B5XVFLKfrom Guam  answered…1wk1W

Yes, if autonomous vehicles are ro be land based. They should operate in locations where pedestrian traffic is not at risk, with the exception of pickup and drop-off points.

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Outside the sports center in the southern city of Zhuhai where a 62-year-old man had plowed an S.U.V. into a crowd, killing at least 35 people, workers on Wednesday quickly removed bouquets of flowers left by grieving residents. Uniformed police officers and officials in plainclothes shooed away bystanders and warned them not to take photos. At hospitals where patients were taken after the attack — at least 43 more people were injured — local officials sat outside the intensive care units, blocking journalists from speaking with family members.On the Chinese internet, censors were mobilized to delete videos, news articles and commentaries about the attack. Almost 24 hours had passed before officials divulged details about the assault, which happened on Monday, including the death toll. Their statement offered limited details, and they have held no news conferences.The response was a precise enactment of the Chinese government’s usual playbook after mass tragedies: Prevent any nonofficial voices, including eyewitnesses and survivors, from speaking about the event. Spread assurances of stability. Minimize public displays of grief.The goal is to stifle potential questions and criticism of the authorities, and force the public to move on as quickly as possible. And to a large degree, it appeared to be working.Though many residents of Zhuhai, the city of 2.4 million where the attack happened, were clearly shaken, they said on Wednesday they had not questioned the delay in information, attributing it to the government’s need to first sort out what had happened. A steady stream of people arrived by foot or taxi to lay flowers at the sports center’s entrance, but when officials took away the flowers and told the people not to linger, they quickly complied.Local governments have also vowed in recent months to spend more time screening for people who have experienced “failures,” after a spate of violent attacks, including several cases in which schoolchildren were stabbed.But officials were also clearly on the lookout for any deeper scrutiny of the Zhuhai killings. Videos and photos of the scene of the attack showed only as grayed-out squares on Weibo, a social media platform. Blog posts urging people not to treat violent attacks as isolated incidents, but rather to look deeper for potential social causes, disappeared.

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