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Possibly not, but the death & maiming stats everywhere show we're absolutely not ready for human-driven ones.
by crispinb 9y ago
Possibly not, but the death & maiming stats everywhere show we're absolutely not ready for human-driven ones.
- carapace 9y agoThank you I imagine a Twilight Zone episode... Go back in time to before cars were invented and imagine some Mephistopheles offering the bargain: "You'll fly like the wind over hills and mountains, making a journey of days in mere hours!" What the catch? "For each mile traveled a certain number of people chosen at random must be put to death or maimed." He would go on about how the chances of someone you love being chosen for sacrifice were infinitesimal, and the benefits to all were so great and so obvious... ("Also, it will poison the air and water, and force you to become dependent on fuel sources that destroy life and engender wars.")
- crispinb 9y agoWell to be fair there are more positives to cars than just cutting journey times. But I agree the negatives are massing hugely as the world's driving population pullulates. As for human readiness to safely control a tonne of speeding metal, my position as a full-time motorcyclist makes me extremely confident that the average alleged 'driver' (actually: daydreamer, snot-picker, instagrammer) isn't even approaching the edge of the competence ballpark.