Sure, we're shaking our head about DDT, but we're still very much relying on DDT's less obviously harmful successors. I hope it won't be the same with self-driv

Sure, we're shaking our head about DDT, but we're still very much relying on DDT's less obviously harmful successors. I hope it won't be the same with self-driving cars. Where there's a will, there's a way, and technology does advance. And at some point, the only way to improve things further will be to remove manually driven cars from the streets. I, too, am skeptical that wide-scale adoption of autonomous vehicles will be an overall good for humanity. I'm afraid it's going to make us humans even more dependent on hyper-complex technology, hence more vulnerable to issues like over-concentration of capital and break-downs of the global supply chain system. That it will atrophy some of our collective native capabilities (for example, the skill to assess risk and take action based on our innate grasp of physics of motion and psychology of others). We would in effect be outsourcing our physical safety to large corporations. Even if more safe, comfortable and efficient, I don't think that's a good idea.