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You are hating a mechanism that allows you to live the life you have now ( which might be pretty good compared to 95% of the population ). If you hate it so mu
by PedroBatista 14y ago
You are hating a mechanism that allows you to live the life you have now ( which might be pretty good compared to 95% of the population ).
If you hate it so much, why not replacing it with electrons aka the Internet?
- mike-cardwell 14y agoDo you even understand the concept of "trade-off" ? The act of driving does not allow me to live the life I have now. The act of travelling does. I don't understand your claim that the act of staring at a road and pulling leavers is somehow beneficial to me, or anybody else.
- PedroBatista 14y agoThe act of you BEING ABLE to. Thats the point i was making in the first post.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI want the right to be able to walk around a busy city centre swinging a baseball bat randomly at head hight. I know it's dangerous and pointless, but if you don't let me do it, you may as well castrate me. It's all about freedom man! Sound ridiculous to you? Now you understand why you sound ridiculous to me.
- PedroBatista 14y agoYes, because driving a car is "dangerous and pointless" so that baseball thing it's a perfect analogy. Since you are at it, lets talk about pre-crime too.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoDriving a car is dangerous and pointless, if it can be done better by a computer... You seem to think your rights are infringed if you are prevented from staring at a road and pulling some levers. Well, my rights are infringed if you're allowed to choose to risk my life by driving manually on the same road as me. You don't get to make that choice. This discussion seems to be unimportant anyway. I am happily convinced that things will turn out the way I want them to when the technology matures. You will not be able to risk my life by manually driving your car on the same road as me and my robot car. And if that makes you feel like less of a man, then maybe you need to re-prioritise what's important to you.
- PedroBatista 14y agoOhh those mean cars with their dangerous levers! Risking my live every single day, tearing apart my hyper self preservation illusions so carefully developed over the years, also bees, their are evil. Lets restrict and regulate other people's abilities so i can sleep at night knowing that there is not a single chance anything happens to me that i didn't approve before hand and if that super smart computer that drives 100% better that humans 100% of the time ever fails, i can just sue their asses and feel instantly better with my self. btw, no skating on the side walk, you might touch me.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoAbout 40,000 Americans die in road accidents a year. 90% of those due to human error. If you think that your freedom to mindlessly stare at some tarmac is worth 36,000 dead Americans every year, that's your right. Good luck trying prevent the inevitable. More realistically, good luck whining about your freedoms on the Internet.
- PedroBatista 14y agoFinally! the ad-hoc statistics card was played and it came attached with the "but think of the children" postcard too. btw, if someday you feel the need to stop pulling out stats of your ass, here it is: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/transportation/motor_vehicle_accidents_and_fatalities.html http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/transportation/m...
- mike-cardwell 14y agoAre you drunk? Not only did I not mention children, but the documentation at the link you yourself provided, backs up my stats...