• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Driving while inebriated is illegal, self driving is not.

    Traffics jams and erreactic behaviour could be fixed if everyone is in a self driving car, but at that point it woild be far more energy effecient, environmentally friendly and cheaper for society to build electrified transit instead.

    If you prioritize the street so that only self driving cars are on it and they need wireless communications to function, how do other road users like cyclists and pedeatrians safely use the street?

    Self driving cars are not here to make your life better, they are here to make a handful of people rich.

    • filister@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I tend to disagree here. For example if you have vehicle to vehicle standardized communications, vehicles can communicate between themselves the location of cyclists, some road obstacles, etc. generally making the roads safer and reducing the number of fatalities.

      Yes, they will make some people more rich, but is this a legitimate reason to obstruct technological advancements? I am sure people were thinking the same way at the cusp of electrification, or automation of some factories, where machines were augmenting the human labor and in the process making those people redundant.

      If we think the same way we should never abandon coal power plants and mines because miners might lose their job, right?

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        There are greener, more energy effecient and more socially fair ways to get the same results than selling everybody a high tech steel box.