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Solution: Don't buy cars that do that.
by theseatoms 9y ago
Solution: Don't buy cars that do that.
- mikejmoffitt 9y agoThe future of self-driving cars is not going to be one based around ownership.
- problems 9y agoIf the future of self-driving cars involves trapping them to reverse engineer them, I for one am really excited for that future.
- clock_tower 9y agoBetter yet, it involves trapping them in summoning circles. (https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-usin...)
- paulddraper 9y agoThe fastest ones are hardest to catch.
- problems 9y agoSounds like the plot for a new shitty Fast and the Furious movie. For the record I also look forward to that.
- electricEmu 9y agoThis view point is detrimental to the community. Your comment offered no real insight, content, or much of value. It's easily negated by stating the obvious: In a market with such high barriers to entry and few players, consumers may not be able to buy a vehicle without sponsored waypoints.
- theseatoms 9y agoI get that I'm stating the obvious. But it's really on us consumers to push back against this tendency of oligopolistic incumbents to constrain consumer choice.
- cltatman 9y agothis idea is presented in the article as a 'classic economic theory' solution, but for whatever reason it seems that consumers are empirically unable or unwilling to do so
- problems 9y agoSo what - will companies stop producing non-self-driving cars? Will regulators force that action? I can't see either happening if self-driving cars have major limiting factors like that. The alternative to self-driving cars that behave badly is not necessarily other self-driving cars, but simply non-self-driving cars.
- cltatman 9y ago> So what - will companies stop producing non-self-driving cars? Will regulators force that action? self-driving cars will quickly prove to be thousands of times safer than human-driven cars. given a few decades for public opinion to align with the facts we'll see human-driven cars heavily regulated as the extreme hazards that they are. > I can't see either happening if self-driving cars have major limiting factors like that. the 'limiting factors' are introduced as optional 'luxury features' several years after self-driving cars have established domination of the market, and over the years are integrated downward into more accessible models.
- sharemywin 9y agoJust to be fair his insight seemed to more valuable than my original comment...
- thomasahle 9y agoIf many people accept it, cars that don't do that may be considered a luxury sold at a premium price. You may not be able to afford such cars.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoI can afford to keep the one I've got now, though...
- ComodoHacker 9y agoOnly for so many years, before it can't meet tightened environment standards anymore.
- narrowrail 9y agoJust FYI, in the rural areas, we don't have emissions at all. Also, my neighbor has 1947 Ford truck that he drives in the summer.
- theseatoms 9y agoThe insurance premia for human-driven cars will price us all out first.