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It will be fun telling the grandkids "back in day, cars used to be driven by people"...

• dmoy 9y ago
  You're totally right ha. (I mean I'm still not convinced it'll move to 100% driverless, but maybe) Back in the day, we used to drive without seatbelts. Back in the day, driving drunk was socially acceptable. Back in the day, we rode horses. Etc. It'll be something.
• fabianhjr 9y ago
  "back in the day, a lot of people were paid to drive people and things around in vehicles" Just like "back in the day, computing was done by humans", "typesetting was done by humans", etc.
• dclowd9901 9y ago
  I’m both excited that I won’t have to worry about my daughter driving with as many humans on the road, and a bit sad as she already shows quite an affinity for being behind the wheel. Guess dad will have to sign her up for track days.
• Florin_Andrei 9y ago
  "so what did you do before self-driving cars?" "we just drove 'em ourselves!" "wow, no one died that way?" "oh no, millions of people died"
• Noos 9y ago
  "Back in the day, people used to do things ourselves. But it was hard, and sometimes people made errors, some that even cost lives. But now everything is done for us. We get driven in our googlecars to our googlejobs where we sit down to watch in case the AI makes a random mistake in doing something, while we watch our carefully curated googlefeeds for news written by algorithm that ensure no nasty "fake news" or unpopular ideas filter into our consciousness. Then we go home to watch googlesports, in which AI players play the games people used to play, but so much more efficiently than us, while petting our googlecat that lies purring on our lap. (Because, you know pets are a big environmental hazard.) ..yeah you have fun telling them that.