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> I'm sure the decision was "data driven" based on real life usage. You're assuming Tesla's end goal is to make the car more usable, and not to maximize revenu
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
> I'm sure the decision was "data driven" based on real life usage.
You're assuming Tesla's end goal is to make the car more usable, and not to maximize revenue.
Their goal is to be transportation smart TV. Sell apps, media, advertising, etc. That's why so much money is being poured into self-driving cars. Americans in particular spend a massive amount of time staring at pavement, and that represents a huge untapped market.
Self-driving cars aren't about the betterment of humanity; the deaths and injuries are certainly horrific in scale, but self-driving cars don't solve the primary problem: our heavy use of low occupancy vehicle trips is not sustainable environmentally, energy-wise, land-use wise (roads or parking), logistically, economically (6+ year car loans, crumbling infrastructure because we can't afford to keep it all in good repair, etc)
- userbinator 5y agoSelf-driving cars are really about bringing the movement of the population under government control.
- dannyw 5y agoPrecisely. Unvaccinated? Your car won't allow you to drive to a restaurant. (If you think this sounds like an exaggeration, just look at how technology is currently being used for government control around the world, and consider how self driving cars will be different).
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- sdf4j 5y agoI'm more concerned with cars taking certain route to pass by a restaurant that is paying for advertisement. But I can understand how the whole covid narrative gave some pople an excuse to feel opressed.
- copo233 5y agoEven assuming that you are correct in your absolutely ridiculous assumption that self-driving cars are about controlling the movement of the population, why would you think it would be government control and not control of the company that is trying to develop the self-driving technology?
- userbinator 5y agoAll the articles posted regularly on HN about governments requesting data on users from companies --- and the latter obediently doing so --- aren't enough evidence?
- sdf4j 5y agoPut aside your usual paranoid police-state governments, and you'll find companies have much more incentives to exploit user data.
- notriddle 5y agoWhy? The government already controls city layout. If they don’t want you to go somewhere, just don’t build a road there at all. If they don’t want you going there sometimes, use tire spikes.
- userbinator 5y agoIt doesn't have to be an outright prohibition. The power of a gentle "recommendation" is enough.
- notriddle 5y agoCity layout can gently recommend things just as easily as it can force something. Allowing roads to fall into disrepair, not mentioning stuff on maps, putting stuff you want people to see nearby stuff that people have to go to.
- jeffreygoesto 5y agoI think it's more that big co want us to lease everything so they can dictate the prize. You can't afford a house, you have to pay even for the transport to your non-self-controlled work... All you have is your ass.