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Does anyone have data on the average income or vehicle prices related to these deaths? How many accidents are being prevented by new currently available safety
by gooseus 9y ago
Does anyone have data on the average income or vehicle prices related to these deaths? How many accidents are being prevented by new currently available safety technology (proximity and blind-spot warnings, etc)? It's not like the advent of AI cars means that everyone just gets one, so this number isn't going to go down significantly unless you force poor people off the road by mandating that only AI get to drive or else give everyone an AI in their car for cheap.
Personally, I don't think the people driving this vehicle AI revolution really care about that number though. It's just what gets wheeled out to appeal to the public in order to justify the next luxury car industry for rich people who want to travel worry-free while intoxicated/sleeping/working/netflixing and to reduce the labor cost in all transportation services from trucking and busing, to operating construction and farming equipment.
The lives AI will save will be rich ones, and the lives that are ruined from increased insurance premiums (by not having an AI vehicle) and the destruction of entire labor markets will be poor/middle-class ones.
Is there a solution I'm unaware of? Is UBI going to cover those costs? Or is the rising inequality and resentment just not a concern since the AI will just solve that next?
- visarga 9y agoDon't worry, the SDC sensors and hardware will be cheap, and software open sourced soon enough. It will be a technology for everyone like the cell phone - even the poor will have equal access. We're good at making cheap hardware, and there will be a push to make it available to everyone.