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Originally Posted by Azure
As much as I feel sympathetic for the people who lost their homes and had to flee the city, you are literally taking a once in century natural disaster and using it to set technological policies and how we advance as a society.
How many thousands of people die every month because of driving accidents strictly due to human error? How many millions have died or lost family members? How many families have been destroyed by drunk drivers? How many kids lost their parents due to driving accidents and ended up in foster homes? If you want to use emergencies or even fatalities to prove your point, you are literally arguing in favor of self driving cars. Out of all the positives behind self driving cars, none is as big as the reduction in driving accidents and ultimately the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary driving fatalities suffered every year.
To me you can go kicking and screaming into this brave new world or you can embrace it and save yourself the headache. Either way it is coming.
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GGG is right I'm mostly thinking in terms of the ride sharing fleet concept when I speak of autonomous cars.
I agree it is coming and I prefer if citizens have a say in how things are implemented. Just sitting around like a dope saying aw shucks guess we don't have any input is sad.
I've already acknowledged that safety is a pro so I'm not sure why you're talking about saving lives. I agree. For the record I've lost several family members and friends in car accidents so the safety issues are not lost on me. It shouldn't be one or the other. I want the assurance that if something goes wrong I have the ability to go where I want when I want. Not when the google car decides to let me.
There's also a lot of money that disappears from lost jobs, wages, traffic infractions taxes etc. That need to be accounted for as well.