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Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for. Personal: My mom has CRPS and walking around causes a great increase in

Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for. Personal: My mom has CRPS and walking around causes a great increase in pain for her(painkillers, even morphine level have almost 0 effect), even being in a car can be very difficult for her, but a vehicle she is able to better position herself than in a wheelchair. She can't drive because of it, but an autonomous car would make it so she could potentially go places (or follow the grand children around at Halloween). Both my parents are in their 60s and 70s and are super excited about level 5 self-driving cars. Random other example: Parent is on crutches from injury, insurance didn't cover wheelchair, or perhaps live in area with poor wheelchair accessibility(bad/no sidewalks). But crutches are too slow to keep up with the kids, they could easily just sit in a self driving car and keep up. But not having to focus on driving and hitting other kids night, can focus on watching their kids and hanging out the window to interact with them.

ThomPete 9y ago
Thats hardly a generalisable argument in this context is it?
Namrog84 9y ago
ThomPete, Sure these aren't necessarily applicable to ALL people, but you asked "such as?" to "Um, there are reasons other than laziness." I gave you at least 2 specifics such as. There are plenty of laziness reasons, but doesn't mean there aren't potential valid reasons besides laziness. I also generalized the "Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for." in the beginning. And there are literally tens of millions of Americans that have at least 1 disability (approximately 20 percent of the US population). And lots of other countries like Japan has an aging population which are likely to have various mobility issues. Not including injuries, or potentially other issues. So I would say that is fairly generalizable.
- ThomPete 9y ago
  Didn't mean to diminish the burden for those in the specific situations. Just mean that we can't have a discussion about self-driving cars by using anecdotes and anomalies, we have to talk about the general issues.

ThomPete 9y ago

Thats hardly a generalisable argument in this context is it?

Namrog84 9y ago

ThomPete, Sure these aren't necessarily applicable to ALL people, but you asked "such as?" to "Um, there are reasons other than laziness." I gave you at least 2 specifics such as. There are plenty of laziness reasons, but doesn't mean there aren't potential valid reasons besides laziness. I also generalized the "Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for." in the beginning. And there are literally tens of millions of Americans that have at least 1 disability (approximately 20 percent of the US population). And lots of other countries like Japan has an aging population which are likely to have various mobility issues. Not including injuries, or potentially other issues. So I would say that is fairly generalizable.

ThomPete 9y ago
Didn't mean to diminish the burden for those in the specific situations. Just mean that we can't have a discussion about self-driving cars by using anecdotes and anomalies, we have to talk about the general issues.