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People are stubborn to change. I don't think their stubbornness should hinder technological advancements. Hence: tough titties.
Since you want to debate, I'll add this: your slippery slope argument ignores how the market works. If cars for old losers are in high demand, people will produce them, and those companies typically will have lobbying power to prevent the legislation that you predict. |
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Also, as to your first line: I was talking mainly about people losing their livelihoods. That's not stubborn, that's just a will to survive. |
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Of course I don't have any solutions. This is why I'm making the point. It's not a case of who can come up with the best idea; I'm saying massive job losses will result from vehicle automation. You're saying so what, let them get another job, which is, on any level, flippant, no matter what you say or how you frame it. You're not providing any answers either. You are, however, trivialising the impact this is going to have on millions of families. |
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To give my own personal view, it would be super cool to call a car, get in and basically be driven where I want to go without needing any sort of interaction from me. It will also obviously (or hopefully anyway) cut down on or cut out entirely the many thousands of deaths that result from traffic accidents, and the many more life-changing injuries. I'm just trying to represent a balanced view, and say that while it is exciting and interesting, there will be those who will get burned by it. Of course, that's the same with any major change, but for instance sailboat captains in the nineteenth century could adapt to steamships, and those who flew propellor aircraft could learn to fly a jet. But this cuts out all human intervention, leaving those who drive for a living with nowhere to go. There is no solution I can see. Hopefully some will be able to make a seismic shift and get into another business, but one major effect of this technology will be surely to lengthen the dole queues. Let's not forget petrol stations either: all these cars will be electric, so no longer any need for your roadside gas station and all its accoutrements and staff. |
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**** not automating everything. I want to live in a world with robot slaves doing everything for us so we can spend our time talking about music and drinking beer.
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Anyhoo... maybe one day I'll actually get to "drive" one of these cars, though knowing my luck I'll probably be the first/only person to be run over by one! :laughing: Incidentally, in that docu one woman who's involved in F1 takes a trip in an automated F1 car which ends up hitting 200 mph! Now I don't think that's something I want to be doing without a driver present! :yikes: |
It would help if you took my word for it the first 3 times I told you that that wasn't what I was implying.
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Driverless doesn't necessarily mean passengerless. It is interesting to consider all the scenarios that driverless will have to be programmed to deal with. Trolley experiment type ****. Algorithms. Crazier than flying Back to the Futures, man. Say, you wouldn't know where I could get some weed, would you?
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I like S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
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I have an interesting question for all of you science lovers... Seriously, why don't blue foods exist? (I'm talking about natural foods.) Think about it... Blueberries are not really blue. Blue cheese is not really blue. So why don't blue foods exist??
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How much naturally occurring blue anything is there? It's just an uncommon colour.
And blue cheese is not blue because it's actually bleu cheese which means something else. |
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Also re: blueberries I think their skins are blue but the fruit is purple? Something like that. |
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