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A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Some people are so obsessed with their vehicles that seeing one destroyed feels like a personal attack on their rights. Acting like a bunch of cars don't kill a bunch of human beings every day regardless of who's driving them, professing blame belongs solely to the victims for being in the wrong place and time. Then you can see how they act when roles are reversed and the idea pops into their minds that people might destroy their precious cars, instead of the norm where cars destroy human bodies. Americans particularly seem to be completely brainwashed since the reeducation campaigns of the likes of AAA a hundred years ago.
If we actually do self-driving cars right - i.e., with a safety-first approach - we could seriously reduce casualties.
Why wait for a reduction when we can eliminate it right away?
Probably because we can't reasonably eliminate it right away.
Well I was being glib but I think we have a greater ability than to eliminate cars today than we do to make them safer by self driving. I think we could get it done in like 5 years outside of rural areas if we had everyone on board.
"If we had everyone on board" is the biggest hurdle.
True but that’s why I’m here advocating for it. Political opposition can be overcome. The physics of a speeding multi-ton object cannot.
Sure, but that's gonna be at least half a generation leading up to your five year estimate.
That's like advocating eliminating the use of skycrapers in five years. Where do you live that you think this is a totally realistic goal? Because it sounds like a cozy, sheltered bubble.
The verge's article on the same incident went on a tangent about how tech companies have been continously facing issues with these kinds of devices destroyed. Can't have a ride sharing program if all the bikes, scooters, vehicles are vandalized or destroyed. No way we're going to rid of personally owned vehicles if the alternatives are continously under attack.