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throw0101atoday at 12:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

> The human brain was not designed for a task which requires hours of siting down doing mostly nothing while […]

The average one-way commute time in the US is less than half an hour:

* https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting/guidance/...

If you can't pay attention for less than 30 minutes should you really be operating a multi-ton death machine?


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fn-motetoday at 12:53 AM

Their point is that a “driver take over autonomous” mode is useless because nobody would pay attention to their surroundings at all.

Gigachadtoday at 12:58 AM

The average person can't last even the length of an elevator trip without reaching for social media.