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The elderly have organized pickups to drive them to the polls, absentee ballots, relatives, etc. The scariest thing I've seen was a Facebook conversation in wh
by s_q_b 11y ago
The elderly have organized pickups to drive them to the polls, absentee ballots, relatives, etc.
The scariest thing I've seen was a Facebook conversation in which no less than a dozen of my classmates, all finance sector employees, were openly mocking an article about the massive disruption self-driving cars will have, as if it were a Jetson's fantasy rather than a one to two year prospect and ten year inevitability. We're in for a massive bumpy disruption. Smart investors stand to make a fortune right now. But a lot of people are going to lose their shirt in the process.
- afarrell 11y agoThats true. I've overstated the case that AARP would view driverless cars as a means to greatly increase the size of its voting bloc rather than just prevent social isolation of its members. I'd be willing to bet that the combination of the possibility for massive economic value from driverless cars combined with a lack of knowledge around that will lead some people to be irrationally exuberant. Hopefully this does not lead to a bubble.