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What is the advantage of autonomous trains over regular? It seems to me that when driving a train is your job, the autonomy just takes it away.
Because I don't want to stay in the city all the time?
It's what having a carbrain does to you.
Because:
Electric bikes are often death traps because people don't realize they need to wear actual real protection and not just a rinky dinky helmet (if even that) at speed. And you still have the same problem of disrupting traffic because you are now going "too fast for the bike lane" and "too slow for the car lane"
Electric trains are very much a thing. Pretty much any city based train and even a lot of regional ones are electric because it is literally easier for everyone involved. The issue is with buses where swapping out the batteries is cost and time prohibitive.
And cars are still the primary mode of transportation for significant parts of the world. And public transportation is amazing for cities and interconnected towns (aka "megacities") but not so much for people who live in small towns in the middle of nowhere. You still need cars for that and not getting a face full of exhaust when one drives past you is a really nice thing.
You don't need cars to travel small towns. People have been travelling small towns without cars for thousands of years.