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This 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

• theseatoms 9y ago
  I 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 ago
    this 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 ago
  So 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 ago
  Just to be fair his insight seemed to more valuable than my original comment...