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> I am genuinely concerned for the millions of Americans who drive for a living. You'd better be concerned about thousands of people they kill every year. It's
by sklogic 11y ago
> I am genuinely concerned for the millions of Americans who drive for a living.
You'd better be concerned about thousands of people they kill every year. It's far more important that an income of a bunch of lorry drivers. Even if some of them die as a result of losing their jobs (and it's quite an unlikely scenario), thousands of the lives spared would offset this by a huge margin.
- TaylorAlexander 11y agoCould you imagine that we could be concerned for both?
- sklogic 11y agoThese are the mutually exclusive concerns. And the lives are outweighing the jobs. Always.
- TaylorAlexander 11y agoI don't follow. I agree 100% that lives outweigh jobs and am 100% for self driving vehicles. But you can have concern for the unemployed drivers without thinking that we need to put them back on the roads killing people. That concern could manifest itself in the desire to see public training programs for out of work drivers so they can find new jobs, or all manner of things that don't conflict with a desire to see fewer people killed by trucks. I know I'm certainly concerned about how these unemployed people will survive, despite also wanting self-driving vehicles to get to market quickly to reduce fatalities.
- sklogic 11y agoOh, sorry, I misinterpreted your concerns as a suggestion to slow down the self-driving adoption and make sure all such training programmes and relocation efforts are comprehensive enough.
- TaylorAlexander 11y agoHah, that's quite an assumption! I'd never suggest slowing the advancement of technology to alleviate social issues. I wasn't making any suggestion, but if I was it would be to accelerate the social change not slow down the advancement of technology.