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A revealing quote showing how car transport often turns humans into aggressors against pedestrians: > “Kids walk and it halts,” she says. “It’s so polite. It's
by oska 8y ago
A revealing quote showing how car transport often turns humans into aggressors against pedestrians:
> “Kids walk and it halts,” she says. “It’s so polite. It's like, ‘Oh sorry.’ It’s not rude enough.”
- incompatible 8y agoA passenger can potentially be just as rude as a driver.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThat quote is actually from the passenger criticizing the self driving car as being "too polite."
- incompatible 8y agoI assume their regular driver is always willing to wind down the window and yell at pedestrians, or use the horn. Perhaps passengers in self-driving cars should have a horn button.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoPerhaps the passenger, who is described as someone acting like she has a chauffeur, should learn better manners and more respect for other people instead.
- incompatible 8y agoThat would be ideal, but I'm not expecting any major changes in human nature simply because of technological change.
- m0nty 8y agoJeez, yes. All the people in this part of the thread lamenting that self-driving cars will drive safely around pedestrians.
- peteretep 8y ago> Perhaps [17 year olds] ... should learn better manners and more respect for other people instead A sentence we can all get behind, I suspect :-D
- Dylan16807 8y agoWalking in front of someone and blocking them is also rude, though. How do you discourage that without 'aggression'? An eye for an eye is a terrible thing, but an angry shout in response to a slight can be an effective way of applying social pressure and reducing the number of slights.
- dmortin 8y agoI expect this will be one of the problems with self driving cars. People will simply walk in front of them crossing the street whenever they want, knowing they won't be hit. And also human drivers will cut off self driving cars all the time knowing the robot driver is extra careful and won't be aggressive.
- ForHackernews 8y agoGood! Maybe cities will finally be able to reclaim their streets from automobiles https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-pedestrians-ruled-streets-180953396/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-pedestrians-r...
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- buboard 8y agothey can still honk aggressively. and they can take pictures of license plates
- dmortin 8y agoHonking won't mean much if it comes from a robot. People won't care about that. License plates photos may help, but will the car send each of these to the police automatically? Police can quickly get swamped then by these reports from self driving cars.
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