tqi
2 hours ago
The hostility towards self driving is so baffling to me. Setting aside the question of which company is going to get there first, it seems patently obvious that self driving is clearly the safer future for drivers and pedestrians. after all, self driving cars are getting better, and human drivers are not.
That said it's not guaranteed that the version we get will be without drawbacks, and imo we should be trying to shape a better version of the future by passing regulations now before unwanted behaviors calcify. Stuff like limiting how many empty miles cars are allowed to drive so that ppl don't just circle their cars around the block to avoid paying for parking, or regulating how long security updates need to be supported to keep insecure cars off the roads.
TRiG_Ireland
10 minutes ago
I'm hostile to cars in general, not just to self-driving. The safer future for pedestrians is not self-driving: it's fewer cars.
4dd
2 minutes ago
"The hostility towards self driving is so baffling to me"
lol perhaps you should do more research then mate. You clearly don't understand the nature of humans and interests.
fragmede
an hour ago
The backdrop is driving for Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc is the only job out there for a lot of people, and taking that away leaves them high and dry. You can say it's not Waymo's responsibility to give them jobs and provide for their needs, and you'd be right, but then, on a societal scale, who's is it? Without an entity who's responsible for that, it's easy to see hostility against self-driving cars as a symptom of that. Who's going to pay to put food on the table if I don't and can't find a job? On a personal level, yes, that's my problem, but it's not a problem that everyone out there is equipped to solve on their own.
JumpCrisscross
14 minutes ago
> driving for Uber/Lyft/Doordash/etc is the only job out there for a lot of people
We regularly fuck over this class of people. The backlash is broader, and my opinion, driven by a combination of taxi economic interests (see: New York, where Hochul and Mamdani have significant taxi-lobby money interests) and genuine but misplaced care for drivers.
dyauspitr
an hour ago
It’s the same as pushback against data centers with asinine reasons like light pollution. People are scared for their jobs and are grasping.