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"He hasn’t replaced driving with, say, watching a movie or relaxing—instead, he’s replaced the stress of driving with something worse. He looks at the road, he
by jzwinck 11y ago
"He hasn’t replaced driving with, say, watching a movie or relaxing—instead, he’s replaced the stress of driving with something worse. He looks at the road, he looks at the wheel, he looks at his hands."
It was much the same when I bought my parents a Roomba. It was meant to do housework for them, and let them do other things. Instead, what used to take 30 minutes of pushing a vacuum cleaner now takes 50 minutes of watching a robot.
Claims that we will all read books and join video conferences from our self-driving cars are unlikely to be realized in the first generation. Of the users, not the machines.
- varjag 11y agoPeople text while driving for years now :) I think the switch will be near instant once the technology is there.
- jessaustin 11y agoMy informal survey of "what the hell is that poor driver in the next lane doing?" confirms that people already read while driving. b^)
- GuiA 11y agoI've seen a roomba in action, and it does a terrible job at cleaning a place. The feeling I got is that it replaces 30 minutes of cleaning with 50 minutes of watching a robot move around, and 20 minutes of cleaning yourself all the spots it missed.
- endymi0n 11y agoYou missed the 10 minutes of rough tidying so it doesn't scoop up your kid's puzzle pieces, the 5 minutes of cleaning the Roomba itself with a real vacuum and the 2 minutes avg of finding and freeing it from the place or string it's been stuck in. Our Roomba isn't running anymore since we have kids - it's literally more work than not doing so :P