Yeah but they might take the fastest route with latest GPS and traffic info because the more people these things move, the more profits for the company. Chances are they will be more efficient than a human being for sure.
Why the push for Autonomous driving?
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Automobiles represent Freedom. They always have. Freedom to go where you want when you want. I think this rubs some people the wrong way, thus the drive to control this freedom. Gon, your comments started me thinking in this direction. I hadn't thought about this when I posed the question.
Virginia Tech has an autonomous highway they built years ago. They have been researching it for many years. I haven't heard of much coming from that. Maybe something to google.
I wouldn't want to be on a motorcycle with a lot of autonomous cars/trucks.
I don't like to be on a bike with a lot of any cars/trucks.
and stupid! There is useful AI and useless AI the latter is what poeple buy these days as they can't tell the difference.
What's the benefit of that?
So the people who know best can "fix the problems."
Who are "the people who know best" and what are the problems they can fix?
Why the push for autonomy.....
Older people lose their autonomy bit by bit as skills and reaction time degrade, first at night, then in heavy traffic.
Losing autonomy is a terrible thing for them and their families who now either leave mom and dad, grandma and grandpa on the couch, or take their own time to shuttle them around.
Young inexperienced people have no guardrails to keep them safe from themselves or us from their lack of skills and poor habits like phone use while driving.
If the car can safely fill in the skill gap everyone wins.
Older people lose their autonomy bit by bit as skills and reaction time degrade, first at night, then in heavy traffic.
Losing autonomy is a terrible thing for them and their families who now either leave mom and dad, grandma and grandpa on the couch, or take their own time to shuttle them around.
Young inexperienced people have no guardrails to keep them safe from themselves or us from their lack of skills and poor habits like phone use while driving.
If the car can safely fill in the skill gap everyone wins.
I know you are just using a retorical tool here, but we've started down a path that will get this thread locked.
You made a statement and I asked for clarification. Not only do I not see how that would get the thread locked, but I'd still like an answer to my question. What did you mean?
And that goal of owning nothing is exclusive of themselves; just the plebes own nothing. It's the same mindset as Marx & Engels, and has had the same results no matter where its been tried throughout history. Shared responsibility is no responsibility.
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I think it's vastly different than what Marx and Engels wrote - ownership of means of production by the workers has very little in common with everything owned by a handful persons.
It's just a derivative as far as I see it. Rather than just controlling what you can buy, those who control go so far as to continually extract energy via the "renting" phase. How long until we see apartments or rental homes advertised as "Housing as a Service (HaaS)?
And I only used those two as an example of the mindset, because even mentioning some of the people who put those ideas into effect could be considered political. I was just talking about their ideas of communal usage, and "From those according to their skills, to those according to their needs". Except the "needs" is from the ones at the top, determined by themselves, because they definitely possess no worthwhile skills of creation. They're leeches.
Although I’ve been out of the game for a while (haven’t issued a summons in over 25 years), IIRC the wording in the VTL is something to the effect of “The operator of the vehicle…..”. The operator is defined as the individual who is in custody and control of said vehicle.
Now don’t quote me, but if motivated I’ll dust off the old VTL and look it up.
