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True. But they might as well drink and drive. Or text on their phone. Cars are dangerous weapons. But we trust the public to use them. I have no interest in
by leobg 5y ago
True.
But they might as well drink and drive. Or text on their phone.
Cars are dangerous weapons. But we trust the public to use them.
I have no interest in playing video games while driving. But I do appreciate Tesla for treating owners as adults. That is to say, I think I can see where they’re coming from. They don’t want people to get into accidents because they’re playing a video game while driving. But they also don’t want to be their customers’ nanny. I like that. To me, that’s a very human touch. Especially for a tech company.
Perhaps I also resent the implicit attempt at shifting the responsibility. If someone crashes into my car because they’re playing a video game I’m gonna sue them. Not Tesla. It’s the driver who made the choice. To say “But Tesla put the screen in front of him. They enabled it”, to me, is to say that people are just automaton consumers, reacting to cues in their environment like some dog to clicker training.