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"complex and expensive cashierless stores that won’t deliver much of an improvement to our shopping experience but may cost underprivileged people their jobs" C
by kvczor 8y ago
"complex and expensive cashierless stores that won’t deliver much of an improvement to our shopping experience but may cost underprivileged people their jobs"
Cashierless stores are simple and amazing. I won't even comment the part about "underprivileged people", this is straight up dumb.
This is a time when an entire driverless car industry is trying to convince the world that its products are safe before it can even come up with convincing stats -
Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.
THAT is not convincing enough? Autonomous cars are the future and will allow us to focus on other activities during the daily commute or long distance travels. Will decrease deaths, will optimize energy consumption by intelligently setting the right route and speed. Humans are inferior to computers on the road, that's a fact.
- kec 8y agoRe: autonomous cars Your narrative is a thing which could happen, not the current truth on the ground. The truth is every time a Tesla rams into a stationary object at speed, or an Uber runs down someone crossing the road, the public’s faith in the tech erodes. Every time that happens we edge closer to overburdensome regulation in the “Thanks to 3 mile island & Chernobyl it’s basically impossible to build a new nuclear plant in the US” sense, and farther away from your utopian dream.
- kvczor 8y agoAccidents will happen, that is inevitable. Autonomous cars don't have to be perfect - they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high. There are very little examples of autonomous cars causing trouble on the road and plenty of them preventing accidents - an example would be videos on youtube showing Teslas predicting accidents in advance and taking action.
- mcphage 8y ago> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high It’s not, but driverless car manufacturers seem intent on pushing their cars out before even reaching that low bar.
- archagon 8y ago> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high Not to rehash this discussion, but: the bar is actually set very high, and current self-driving tests are seemingly not meeting it. There's a lot of deaths because there's a whole lot of driving. Give humans credit where it's due.