Comment by standardUser a day ago
> insane chaos
Hardly. I live in downtown Manhattan. I used to live in downtown San Francisco and between the streetcars, cable cars, hills, and the extraordinarily large homeless population, it feels far more chaotic in the denser areas.
NY by comparison is big, flat and orderly. I feel significantly safer as a pedestrian here than I ever did in SF. And it's a much more pleasant place to drive.
My point was clear - NYC is a more orderly place for a car to operate.
What planet do you live on that you think NYC is more orderly than SFO? You sound very sheltered. Have you even been outside of Manhattan? Let alone above midtown? No one who spent a reasonable time outside of a bubble would say NYC is an orderly place. No one. Do you even drive? Have you driven across anywhere during rush hours? Why would you blatantly lie about a city being orderly when it can be easily refuted? 8M people live there to contest whatever you are saying.
Ok. I am glad you feel safe as a pedestrian but what does all that have to do with autonomous vehicles. I am native to NYC. SFO has 800K people. NYC is literally 10x the size. Nice comparison.