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I think that if cars were invented today they would most likely be made illegal due to the potential for death (40k/year in the US). Aside from a handful of fre
by kenrikm 11y ago
I think that if cars were invented today they would most likely be made illegal due to the potential for death (40k/year in the US). Aside from a handful of freak accidents drones don't kill people yet there are a great many people trying to ban them out of the the fear that they might. Now compare that to the 40k number for cars. Drone deliveries have the potential to remove cars from the road thus saving lives.
- icebraining 11y agoBut that's the thing - back then, people did protest against cars. From the 99pi episode: Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine. One newspaper cartoon even compared the car to Moloch, the god to whom the Ammonites supposedly sacrificed their children.(...) Pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies. Cities held parades and built monuments in memory of children who had been struck and killed by cars. Mothers of children killed in the streets were given a special white star to honor their loss. And yet, cars still went to dominate cities and landscapes. I think this tells us something about how drones might become accepted despite early opposition.