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> Also, please consider how many people are employed in transportation and see themselves broke and homeless ... > These are people who, like luddites, see the
by Jach 8y ago
> Also, please consider how many people are employed in transportation and see themselves broke and homeless ...
> These are people who, like luddites, see the end of their lives as they know it.
I agree it's a different scenario but how much of a fraction is that? I doubt it's very large. Literally millions of new employees in this field have been created thanks to companies like Uber, I doubt most were in the transportation business beforehand and had jobs doing something else, and once driverless cars are more common most won't be in transportation afterwards either. Most people can find new jobs, and most people in the industry already are probably there as a consequence of "I need a new job" rather than being born and bred for this one thing they can do that a machine will now take over.
- selimthegrim 8y agoI don't think Uber means what you mean by the word employee, just like the case recently all over reddit where TomTom stopped "lifetime" updates to a two year old GPS unit.
- reaperducer 8y agohow much of a fraction is that? I doubt it's very large "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" only exists in Star Trek, and Silicon Valley. In the rest of the world, every life has value.
- Jach 8y agoConsidering I don't subscribe to such a simplistic philosophy that can't be the driving point of my questioning at all, your response makes no sense. Furthermore such a philosophy does not originate in Star Trek, SV is more individualistic and self-centered than most of the world (and I don't even live there anyway nor have any desire to), and life having value does not imply that all lives are the same value or that you can't perform addition on the values.
- SEJeff 8y agoNeeds are relative. I suspect society as a whole will be better off when no one loses a child to drunk drivers, asleep drivers, or elderly drivers who have impossibly slow reflexes due to age related factors. Self driving cars make those things a reality.
- travisoneill1 8y agoExcept, of course, for the lives of people killed by the status quo technology. Fuck them, right?