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(1) I'm not sure self-driving machines will actually need that much more infrastructure. For one, driver training would be less necessary, and car utilization c
by xixi77 11y ago
(1) I'm not sure self-driving machines will actually need that much more infrastructure. For one, driver training would be less necessary, and car utilization could go up.
(2) assuming they did require infrastructure, what does Africa's future population has to do with it? Random person does not matter (taking "random" as "uniform"), random car buyer does -- either they have enough cars which would make the infrastructure worthwhile, or they don't, in which case they can be safely ignored for all car-related purposes.
It could be that (i) things like bad roads make things difficult for self-driving cars, while (ii) labor is very cheap and everyone who can afford a car can afford a personal driver. It would still mean a fairly small ratio of cars per capita, but I don't think anyone predicts that self-driving cars will ever completely replace human drivers :)
- agentgt 11y agoAfrica's population was brought up because many dystopian novels/stories have an upper class (like 0.01%) who's rights are incredibly restricted but rewarded with resources/privileges where as the vast majority of the population can mostly do whatever they like but are given nothing. 1984 is a great example... there are many more examples. ie poverty and/or living off the grid = freedom. I guess when I read dystopian like things where this is the case I'm always begging the question... why don't the characters just move out of the restricted society (in some cases the story answers that but in many its not).