Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

• cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or, we managed to create a society where people are upset about new, unregulated, and, according to the article in question, potentially dangerous technology being implemented with little regard to the public good.

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  • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree with those things, but I believe the person I was responding to was complaining about putting cab drivers out of work. I just think it’s unfortunate that we can’t simply take care of each other, that people are only valued based on what they produce, and therefore any threat to that production is viewed as negative. We’re more productive than ever and we work more than ever. Our ancestors would be baffled if they could see us

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    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was me, and my point was that we already had a suitable, regulated, and relatively safe system in place, ie taxis, so there’s no need for innovation that will needlessly endanger people.

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      • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re on the internet right now. Electricity is super dangerous and we already had a safe and well regulated postal system to communicate before that. If you’re arguing that we should never innovate I think we just disagree there . The same argument could be used against a lot of things. Do I like self driving cars? Idk not particularly, I like trains and bikes. But the idea of freeing up people’s time so they can focus on worthwhile endeavors appeals to me, and it bothers me that in our society the goal isn’t to work less, but rather to work more for less. That’s the point I was trying to make, that whenever we complain about ‘lost jobs’ we should take a moment to consider how absurd it is that that’s a problem

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