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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Regarding the Fort Mac situation:
One can think that Uber controlled by private interests may happen and cause countless deaths, or...
One can think that the City will have a fleet of driverless emergency cars to supplement personal driverless cars, all fine-tuned to take the quickest and most accessible route out of town, based on algorithms that measure traffic, route length, etc. The cars will be deployed on command, send different sized vehicles automatically to people and families that need them, and organize themselves to move quickly out of town.
One of the easiest bottlenecks to hit traffic and highways is human error. All it takes is one person to drive like an idiot - and we all know there are many out there.
To be honest, 20 years from now if Fort Mac happened again, I expect the evacuation to go even better and more efficiently because of technological trends that are going to happen anyways.
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You may be absolutely right I don't doubt it's possible. Or it could be worse. No one is addressing it.
I know my brother didn't have more than about 20 minutes to get out. Without his own individual vehicles he wouldn't have made it out in time imagine sitting around waiting for a vehicle to pick you up while your neighborhood is on fire..