I apologise for the tangent but doesn’t this “future” feel off?
We’re improving the experience with navigating all of these noisy, nasty, ugly, toxic and dangerous car sewers (aka car streets) that actively robs us from our humanity and leads to isolation?
This all feels kinda like the Soviet Union building a shit ton of concrete “monuments” everywhere, pretending that was what people “wanted”
The tech is truly impressive but I wish we were able to step out of the local maxima of “optimising this shitty experience until it is less shitty” and start taking “optimising live in cities so it feels nice again” as an actual goal?
Some countries seem to have stumbled on it and the science of urbanism is progressing, but man if that amount of ingenuity that went into self driving cars had went into green and efficient cities…
This all feels kinda like the Soviet Union building a shit ton of concrete “monuments” everywhere, pretending that was what people “wanted”
The tech is truly impressive but I wish we were able to step out of the local maxima of “optimising this shitty experience until it is less shitty” and start taking “optimising live in cities so it feels nice again” as an actual goal?
Some countries seem to have stumbled on it and the science of urbanism is progressing, but man if that amount of ingenuity that went into self driving cars had went into green and efficient cities…