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If you think Waze-style routing is a problem, use the social technology we've developed for solving problems to solve this one. Draft a law refining the traffic

If you think Waze-style routing is a problem, use the social technology we've developed for solving problems to solve this one. Draft a law refining the traffic rerictions for local road access. Debate the benefits and draebacks of your proposed rule in public, then have an honest vote on whether we as a society should adopt this rule change. Don't go around calling companies irresponsible for doing legal things for the benefit of their customers and themselves. Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society.

ghaff 9y ago
>Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society. I pretty thoroughly disagree with that. Yes. There need to be laws. And sometimes those laws are very specific--like don't use this road as a cut-through during rush hour or don't make a left-hand turn here during rush hours. But generally a society won't function well if everyone's attitude is that I'll do whatever I feel like so long as it's not technically illegal or I won't get caught.
CaptainZapp 9y ago
"Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society." I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion. As a visitor I can observe that this system, which is strongly based on social control, seems to work pretty well in a really crowded environment.
- paganel 9y ago
  > I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion. I think the OP was talking about Waze, the company (so about Google, which owns it). Looking at Japan I can see that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company behind the Fukushima nuclear disaster, hasn't cared almost at all about this famous Japanese "social pressure".
bsder 9y ago
> Draft a law refining the traffic rerictions for local road access. You don't even have to do that. You can engineer the road, itself, so that people don't want to be on it. The problem is that these same neighborhood people also like their own fast access so they oppose doing things that would slow down their streets.

ghaff 9y ago

>Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society. I pretty thoroughly disagree with that. Yes. There need to be laws. And sometimes those laws are very specific--like don't use this road as a cut-through during rush hour or don't make a left-hand turn here during rush hours. But generally a society won't function well if everyone's attitude is that I'll do whatever I feel like so long as it's not technically illegal or I won't get caught.

CaptainZapp 9y ago

"Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society." I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion. As a visitor I can observe that this system, which is strongly based on social control, seems to work pretty well in a really crowded environment.

paganel 9y ago
> I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion. I think the OP was talking about Waze, the company (so about Google, which owns it). Looking at Japan I can see that the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the company behind the Fukushima nuclear disaster, hasn't cared almost at all about this famous Japanese "social pressure".

bsder 9y ago

> Draft a law refining the traffic rerictions for local road access. You don't even have to do that. You can engineer the road, itself, so that people don't want to be on it. The problem is that these same neighborhood people also like their own fast access so they oppose doing things that would slow down their streets.