Posted on 02/04/2018 9:36:53 AM PST by jiggyboy
The rabble can’t be trusted with self-driving cars, and only companies operating fleets of them should be able to use them in dense urban areas.
So say Uber and Lyft, as signatories to a new list of transportation goals developed by a group of international non-governmental organizations and titled “Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Regulatory Capture in two steps:
Uber 2009: Government control and restrictions on the taxi business is so 19th-century! Let Uber drivers operate without government oversight!
Uber 2018: Government control and restrictions on future technology is Job One! Let no driver who does not fly the Uber flag live drive without government permission!
Now we know why they seem to be not panicked about short-term cash burn and long-term balance-sheet red ink: the current business is just in place for them to convert to a self-driving fleet that is one of the pampered pets of the NWO.
If this is their position on self-driving cars in cities &c, what about me in my little 2010 rice-burner? Will people watch with laughter and glee the night-vision video from 20,000 feet of me being droned as I approach the toll booth?
Sorry for future generations.
But i hope i do not live long enough to have to be apart of self driving cars.
Wont be surpised if this becomes law in the not so distant future. Despite Trump, this nation is stilk on a fast track to full grown Socialism.
Hey! What a great place for a Rush tune!
Red Barchetta - based on the short story “A Nice Morning Drive”
“The song’s lyrics tell a story set in a future in which many classes of vehicles have been prohibited by “the Motor Law”. The narrator’s uncle has kept one of these now-illegal vehicles (the titular red Barchetta sports car) in pristine condition for some “fifty-odd years” and keeps it hidden at his secret country home (previously a farm before the enactment of the aforementioned Motor Law). Every Sunday, the narrator sneaks out to this location and goes for a drive in the countryside. During one such drive, he encounters a “gleaming alloy air car” that begins to chase him along the roads. A second such vehicle soon joins the pursuit, which continues until the narrator drives across a one-lane bridge that is too narrow for the air cars. The song ends with the narrator returning safely to his uncle’s farm”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjNvjURS-s
Getting their wish, there will be no other type of vehicle on the road - as for you driving: where and who would sell you, and outlaw, fuel? So you do not need to be worried about being the target of a Hellfire missile, just how big your waist will get from sitting on the couch all day.
From the ‘people’s ride’ to ‘Big Brother’s Transport Arm’.
Must be lefties. They want freedom for all until they
get enough power to make freedom their exclusive property.
As to self-driving cars: it will be interesting. If the density of the on-call fleet is such that a car will reliably appear at your door within a couple of minutes, do you really want to undergo the expense of a personal automobile? The self-driving car will still take you anywhere you want to go.
.... Lost my self driving 420HP fun car in an unfortunate boating accident last week.
At least a self-driving car won’t over-charge you, and it certainly won’t rape you.
In the urban areas.
I'm in Manhattan on a regular basis as I have an office there. It's pretty much taxis, limos and Uber/Lyft service there already. I know some brave souls do it but it's crazy to take your personal car to Manhattan. Everything about driving in Manhattan is a nightmare from the constant gridlock, avoiding jaywalkers, navigating the various one-way streets, jockeying for position with the trucks and the double-length city buses and of course, the parking, in which you almost always have to hand your keys over to a guy who looks like he just got out of prison and then pay in the neighborhood of $50 to get it back a few hours later.
So I see it happening there first. Private cars banned. Self-driving taxis. You plug your destination into an app on your phone and the next available pulls up to you (flashing your name on top) and you step inside. You are taken to your destination and your credit card is being debited for the trip. No tipping unless you want to give the car a little rub and tap on the way out. For the poorer people, well, you need to rely on the city buses and subways.
It's happening. For better or for worse. Brave new world. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
What destination does the “self driving” car choose:
If you miss a car payment or there’s a mistake in your payment record?
If you want to attend a Tea Party or Trump rally and somebody else doesn’t want you to?
If the police want to talk to you but you don’t want to talk to them at the moment?
Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But I want that option, and I don't want that option cut just because that makes life a little sweeter for (future) Big Auto. Do I want to heat my house with wood? Do I want to cook my own food? Do I want to pump my own gas? Do I want to paint my own house?
The self-driving car will still take you anywhere you want to go.
Unless / until:
- I slowly roll to a stop, or don't slow to a stop at all, because a bug or virus in the software in the car or in "the intelligent road" says so.
- Somebody figures out how much fun it is to broadcast fake or noise laser / lidar / radar / whatever signals to every car on Highway X for five minutes, either causing a crash in front of me, or me being in that crash.
- Some state or local or federal computer decides that I am the same Mr. Jiggy Boy who didn't pay his taxes or child support / is now on the Terrorist Watchlist / has violated parole / died yesterday / etc. (NB: One of these mistakes has happened to me.)
- Same but for my car: it's reported as the getaway car in a bank robbery / is overdue for maintenance / is owned by an Amber Alert guy / etc.
You get the idea.
Excellent points. I wasn’t even thinking as I was writing my post (just below yours) that we are subject not just to mistakes and incompetence, but now also to deliberate and malicious baseless persecution by any level of our government. 200 miles from home, you give somebody with a badge an answer he doesn’t like, and rightly or wrongly he calls the big ignition switch in the sky. You think he was doing it just to mess with you, tell it to the judge.
There was a science fiction story I read years ago, probably something from Robert Heinlein, that featured driverless taxis (except these taxis could fly). Once inside the taxi, the government could easily lock the doors and send the taxi directly to the police station instead of to the intended destination and in fact, that’s exactly what happened to one of the protagonists in the novel. He thought he was going to have dinner with his girlfriend but it did not quite work out that way for him. Instead, he was taken into custody.
Didn’t take long for the companies that ousted the rent seeking taxi monopolies, to want to become rent seeking monopolies themselves!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Of course the city busses will be driverless too, as well as the subways, I mean why not?
Another reason I don’t live in libtard urban areas.
I just see the driver assist features becoming more prevalent until suddenly you’re at the point where the car really can drive itself, richies first, rabble later.
regulatory capture is right !
happens in every industry that socialists want to apply Soviet planning methods to.
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