Post #4369350

Anxiety prediction that will inevitably turn out to be true: Apart from the safety issues, and the privacy issues, and so many other issues, self driving cars are likely to be plentiful in places with existing public transport systems and next to non existent elsewhere. This is because these are the places that will make money, the way private postal providers and Internet providers have to be strong armed into serving rural or impoverished areas (usually with limited success). In this way they’ll have the effect of giving people an excuse to defund public transport, while at the same time giving the tech bros another can’t-fail political lever and cash cow due to ever tightening binding of private interest to our physical logistics. There may be a world where self driving cars are pro-social, but like every other solution designed by a tech bro the current iteration will be rotten from the ground up and would need to be completely rethought.