This article wrongly assumes everyone can adapt, and that’s not true. High unemployment among those least able to redefine themselves leads to drug addiction, crime, despair and depression. It is why the displacement of working class American men in the workforce by women and immigrants has led to declines in their life expectancy.
And driver is the most common job category in many states, filled disproportionately from the working class.
Dr. Jordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0
They’ll do wonders for the vehicle bomb industry. No suicidal inbred required.
Tell Google to Find off!
I am the Passenger
And I ride and I ride
so self-driving cars are going to make LA traffic disappear?
no...acesss to self-driving cars by those who don’t already own a car will add to traffic by putting more, not less, vehicles on the road
The first lawsuit stemming from two self-driving cars colliding will be interesting.
I’m too old to ever see it. But I have no complaints about having to drive myself. I think I hit the sweet spot in personal transportation. Great cars and trucks, but before the nanny state technology went too far.
...will free up 250 million hours of commuting time per year
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The time it takes to travel from point A to B, and return, doesn’t change.
Why not self driving houses?
Until they can get a few fully autonomous cars to run a complete indy or NASCAR race it’s hokum ...
this self-driving car BS is like the 21st century version of the mid-20th century nonsense about flying cars.
Imagine your amusement when you get into the “car” and type in your destination, only to have the screen say, “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.”
Interesting reaction from many Freepers who insist they will never climb inside of a self-driving car and that they will cling to their old ways no matter what. These are the same people who probably vowed they would never use one of those confounded ATM machines or pay a bill on home computer back in the 1980s.
Speaking of home computers, I was one of the early adopters and there was a lot people who scoffed that I was throwing my money away on a hunk of junk. “Who the hell needs one of them computers in his house” they would say to me as they rattled their newspaper and reached for the remote to watch Dan Rather deliver the evening news.
Now these same old geezers are playing online blackjack on iPhones and watching Netflix on tablets and getting their news from a man named Drudge. The once trusted Dan Rather was destroyed by them online computer geeks and is now a pathetic bitter discredited washed up shriveled shell of a little man.
These self-driving cars are our future I’m afraid to say. Technology marches on. At some point in the future, our descendants will marvel at the fact that our society once allowed citizens to self-drive and hurtle about the countryside in two-ton metal death machines. To them, it will seem positively barbaric and medieval.
A $elf$erving “report” by tho$e expected to benefit greatly in and by the “$elf driving” agenda of the arrogant technology class - a class $triving to make it$elf the next privately run “deep $tate”.
F your self driving cars, socialistic nerds.