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From the article: "The debate touches on fears ranging from eliminating jobs for drivers to ceding control over mobility to autonomous vehicles."
by ajmurmann 8y ago
From the article: "The debate touches on fears ranging from eliminating jobs for drivers to ceding control over mobility to autonomous vehicles."
- kodablah 8y agoTo be fair, we should separate what the protesters are protesting and what the reporter says is part of a general debate. NYT does not get to say why people are protesting, though it helps them drive a narrative if people reading the article can't tell the difference. They deliberately conflate vandalism with general debate, and unfortunately it is then up to us to be smart enough to not lump them together like they did. The formula is usually to take shocking story/reaction, humanize it at a micro level, talk to so-called expert who may have written a book, have expert give general reasoning at a macro level, and then watch readers confuse micro and macro.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoAlso: > The trouble started, the couple said, when their 10-year-old son was nearly hit by one of the vehicles while he was playing in a nearby cul-de-sac. > “They said they need real-world examples, but I don’t want to be their real-world mistake,” said Mr. O’Polka, who runs his own company providing information technology to small businesses. People protest for all sorts of reasons. bko's point is not relevant to every protester.