• realitista@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    With Tesla behind it, I’m sure it will happen and be an unmitigated disaster.

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    11 hours ago

    Clear the way for all those cars that won’t be able to do shit in snow and rainy weather or if road situations are less than 99% clear!

  • TwoCupsofSugar@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I like the idea of self driving cars, especially for people with mobility issues but they’ll never be safe enough for use without their own infrastructure because of the complexity and also terrible design of American roads. Personally I think its better to spend our tax dollars on building better public transit and human sized transportation methods but the absurd amount of push back from both the populace and also the government basically guarantees it isn’t going to happen in my life time. But i generally don’t see the self-driving car experiment working out in the long run.

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      1 day ago

      I think it would be great if the technology was more mature, and there was proper accountability for the negative consequences. I think we need a conservative approach npw, where the CEO of the companies pushing self driving are personally held liable for manslaughter if someone dies due to an error.

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        22 hours ago

        Yep. Instead of a conservative approach to new technology the US uses a Conservative approach to new technology which means no regulation and costs born by the populace. No privacy, health outcomes, safety recalls…all to foster “innovation”. We’re basically just lab rats without rights and the now-being-actively-dismantled veneer of protections.

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          15 hours ago

          Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.

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            13 hours ago

            The triangle shirtwaist apparel by Gap. Travel the high seas on the Carnival Cruise Line Titanic. Discover employment opportunities and exciting diseases like pneumoniultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in resurgent US coal industry. Enjoy being fired for not showing up for work because you got food poisoning since companies don’t have FDA oversight anymore–and sick time was nationally forbidden. The future is bright, join now!

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    1 day ago

    This is further evidence that Agent Orange’s mission is to sow chaos and discord, and to sabotage the government and economy.