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> This urban/rural divide doesn’t make for good licensure policy. Have you spent any time living in rural areas? > People who depend on driving themselves are

> This urban/rural divide doesn’t make for good licensure policy. Have you spent any time living in rural areas? > People who depend on driving themselves are less “sophisticated” - they won’t want to spend more time getting a license, because they live farther away, they’re less likely to take drivers classes, etc You do realize a lot of these people have class A license already because there are a lot of those jobs out there and farmers often get one to move their own product? You couldn't be _more_ wrong. > We already see states with smaller urban population have easier driver’s license standards They also have wildly different politics. It turns out density has more than one impact. The largest one is suicide rates. Lowest in New York highest in Alaska. You can accidentally measure population density in all kinds of ways. > So rural-leaning elected officials will want to keep human-driving easy to access. It's going to come down to who controls access to the freeways. I'm actually on the rural peoples side, but the interstates as a whole are a little bit out of their typical zone of influence. Given that rural life is already very different, much more so than some people can even imagine, I would expect to be the most likely point of negotiation and the most likely outcome given the parties involved. Reasonable people could differ I guess.

vineyardmike 2y ago
> You do realize a lot of these people have class A license already Admittedly, I didn’t know that. > They also have wildly different politics. Yes, I’m just assuming self driving will be a topic broken down by politics. Do you disagree? My core thesis is that rural people won’t want self driving because it’s less compatible with their existing life, and the “saves lives argument is stronger in urban areas. I think, like guns and many other political topics, it’ll be polarizing, and the rural voters will get an outsized influence to fight it. Highways are an important part of the road system. I can’t imagine rural people being locked out nor forced to have two vehicles. Some people hunt for sustainance, and we protect that right despite being irrelevant for 99.9% of people. Many more people use trucks or heavy equipment on their farm/homestead for work (or pleasure eg off-roading). I assume we’ll end up protecting that the same way.

vineyardmike 2y ago

> You do realize a lot of these people have class A license already Admittedly, I didn’t know that. > They also have wildly different politics. Yes, I’m just assuming self driving will be a topic broken down by politics. Do you disagree? My core thesis is that rural people won’t want self driving because it’s less compatible with their existing life, and the “saves lives argument is stronger in urban areas. I think, like guns and many other political topics, it’ll be polarizing, and the rural voters will get an outsized influence to fight it. Highways are an important part of the road system. I can’t imagine rural people being locked out nor forced to have two vehicles. Some people hunt for sustainance, and we protect that right despite being irrelevant for 99.9% of people. Many more people use trucks or heavy equipment on their farm/homestead for work (or pleasure eg off-roading). I assume we’ll end up protecting that the same way.