Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months agoIndividual transportation is the number one cause of preventable road fatalities,
You will literally never build a society where you remove taxis, deliveries, moving large furniture / household items, etc. without some form of enclosed motorized transportation (a car for the purposes of this discussion).
human or machine doesn’t matter
If we make machines that are safer than humans than yeah, it will.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s not individual transportation. None of it. But now that you mention it: Do imagine how your cities would look like if those were the only vehicles on the roads.
Malaria might be less severe than the black death still doesn’t mean I want to catch it.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Well the don’t shift goal posts to “individual transportation” when we’re talking about people thrashing a self driving car.
They didn’t trash a gas guzzler.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can do automated taxis, deliveries and moving services, not so much.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You can still automate the driving part of moving and delivery services, which is the dangerous part.