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I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. They knew the bloodlines and "genetics" of a good horse. The em

I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. They knew the bloodlines and "genetics" of a good horse. The emergence of autos made that knowledge less valuable and/or relevant. I do want to live in that world and I live in the suburbs of vanilla tract homes, charter schools, and club soccer. Vehicles are expensive in either time, money or both... I recently did the brakes of both our vehicles. It was super inexpensive compared to what I was quoted in price, but it cost me some time. I am looking at replacing one of our vehicles soon as the cost of repair may overshadow the vehicles worth. In all cases... it is a hassle and I would rather not deal with it. The alternative, public transportation and/or Uber is either too expensive (Uber) for our use case or inconvenient (public trans)... If these self-driving vehicles get to parity with owning a vehicle in terms of cost of ownership and convenience. I will be standing in line to get rid of my cars.

mindcrime 9y ago
I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. But nobody was told "you have five years to trade your horse in on a car, or send it to the glue factory". Horse are still legal and used to this day, they just mostly lost out to market forces... that is, cars are simply a better mode of transportation for most people most of the time. But you can still ride a horse if you want to (albeit probably not on freeways, but certainly on country roads). Now, if the proposal was that certain limited access, high-speed highways are restricted to only self-driving cars, I might be able to accept that, even if somewhat grudgingly. But outlawing human driven cars completely, even on backroads? I just can't see it.
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- jhugg 9y ago
  You didn’t need to buy “horse insurance.” The real change happens when it doesn’t make buisness sense to insure you.
mythrwy 9y ago
I saw a guy in line at a fast food drive-through on a horse a few months back. I don't know if there's laws against it but he was just riding around town like it was car (small town). Haven't seen him since so IDK what the outcome was.

mindcrime 9y ago

I suppose people that were into horses felt the same way when automobiles were first introduced. But nobody was told "you have five years to trade your horse in on a car, or send it to the glue factory". Horse are still legal and used to this day, they just mostly lost out to market forces... that is, cars are simply a better mode of transportation for most people most of the time. But you can still ride a horse if you want to (albeit probably not on freeways, but certainly on country roads). Now, if the proposal was that certain limited access, high-speed highways are restricted to only self-driving cars, I might be able to accept that, even if somewhat grudgingly. But outlawing human driven cars completely, even on backroads? I just can't see it.

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jhugg 9y ago
You didn’t need to buy “horse insurance.” The real change happens when it doesn’t make buisness sense to insure you.

mythrwy 9y ago

I saw a guy in line at a fast food drive-through on a horse a few months back. I don't know if there's laws against it but he was just riding around town like it was car (small town). Haven't seen him since so IDK what the outcome was.