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I agree with your point - though I'd also say that people who actually working in the field generally are considering these sorts of issues and are not blind to
by potatolicious 10y ago
I agree with your point - though I'd also say that people who actually working in the field generally are considering these sorts of issues and are not blind to them.
The "OMG only cars will exist and everything will be amazing because pedestrians are a fictional concept" crowd overwhelmingly seem to be wide-eyed futurists who don't actually have professional first-hand exposure to the field.
- Tiktaalik 10y agoThere are people that are considering these issues, but I'm a bit concerned that I've only read insightful commentary on this issue from urban planners, which aren't going to be the ones creating self driving vehicles and advancing that tech forward. In contrast on the Silicon Valley side, I am disturbed by how many tweets and breezy blog posts I read from people that don't seem to know what Induced Demand is and don't seem to understand how cities work.
- potatolicious 10y agoI share your concerns, though I'd also add that HN is a very self-selected group of people and not necessarily representative of the people having these conversations. Also, given the nature of the work and the insane level of competition right now, anyone working on this first-hand would be wise to not speak about these things in public. So the only commenters are urban planning and infrastructure folks who don't work first-hand on the problem - and fortunately they are writing extensively about it. People who have first-hand expertise on the matter are prevented from speaking extensively about it, which leaves the remainder of the commentary to the peanut gallery. And the peanut gallery is unfortunately filled with people whose visions of the future resemble more of the Jetsons than anything practical.