That's the value-sell of self-driving cars: placating an anti-social techno-"patrician" class that fears people, a class who now has the luxury of avoiding them.
Self-driving cars seem to be a technological solution to a modern socio-cultural pathology, nothing more. That's not healthy. Seems like the better solution would be to address the pathology directly and eliminate it, rather than create workarounds for it.
How did you find yourself in a low-trust society, with anti-social leanings? And how can we fix that? That needs to be addressed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568066
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568076
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568083
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568119
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568226
That's the value-sell of self-driving cars: placating an anti-social techno-"patrician" class that fears people, a class who now has the luxury of avoiding them.
Self-driving cars seem to be a technological solution to a modern socio-cultural pathology, nothing more. That's not healthy. Seems like the better solution would be to address the pathology directly and eliminate it, rather than create workarounds for it.
How did you find yourself in a low-trust society, with anti-social leanings? And how can we fix that? That needs to be addressed.