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The government regulation allowed the Uber on the road, so it may be a lesson in why government regulation doesn't work or provides a false sense of safety.
by coryfklein 9y ago
The government regulation allowed the Uber on the road, so it may be a lesson in why government regulation doesn't work or provides a false sense of safety.
- throwaway2048 9y agoclearly the better alternative would have been no regulation, and uber continuing to operate (???)
- coryfklein 9y agoI just meant to point out that "regulation" on its own isn't inherently helpful. We shouldn't applaud "regulation" for its own sake, but should consider what the regulation actually is and how it functions when evaluating its value. Obviously our roads need some regulation, and in seems that the regulation in Arizona wasn't the right regulation.
- philip1209 9y agoI specifically mean that Arizona chose to allow self-driving cars on their roads with little regulation and that lack of regulation contributed to the death of a pedestrian.
- coryfklein 9y agoYea, I'm really splitting hairs at this point, but you can't use the Uber incident this month as evidence to support the claim that "regulation is good". You could use the incident as evidence that "Arizona's regulation is not good". We _can_ support the claim "regulation is good" by pointing to other states that did regulation right and seeing how their fatality rates are better than Arizona's. But yes, I agree with the spirit of the statement, Arizona needs better regulation, and it seems pretty clear that "regulation is good" in this case.