“We can’t stop killing children in the short term, so we are not gonnna do anything to stop the kid killing machine. To stop the kid killing machine would be a pipe dream. Instead, we have this automated machine that kills children, slower.”
That is a wild take, but the orphan crushing machine must keep churning, I suppose.
Self driving cars are the harm reduction we need in the short term so we can make the massive infrastructure changes that will achieve your long term goals.
Dismissing them as an option is saying that we should ignore things that help in the short term because they’re not a perfect solution.
If the goal is less people killed by motor vehicles, self-driving cars are a massive step forward.
Plus, there’s no reason that electric self-driving cars can’t be public transportation.
Traffic segregation, car free zones, public transport, lower speed limits, car size based taxing, stricter driver license conditions, three strike limitations, temporal license suspensions schemes, these are all measurements that would reduce car accidents just as much, and could be implemented within the next week anywhere at very low cost. It’s not a pipe dream, it’s a lack of political will.
It doesn’t take several billion dollars of R&D onto a tech that will never work outside of 1% of the road network and could actually not reduce cars accidents at all once it faces real world conditions.
If the goal is to reduce traffic accidents, this is the most expensive, slowest and inefficient way to do it.
“We can’t stop killing children in the short term, so we are not gonnna do anything to stop the kid killing machine. To stop the kid killing machine would be a pipe dream. Instead, we have this automated machine that kills children, slower.”
That is a wild take, but the orphan crushing machine must keep churning, I suppose.
That’s actually your take, not mine.
Self driving cars are the harm reduction we need in the short term so we can make the massive infrastructure changes that will achieve your long term goals.
Dismissing them as an option is saying that we should ignore things that help in the short term because they’re not a perfect solution.
If the goal is less people killed by motor vehicles, self-driving cars are a massive step forward.
Plus, there’s no reason that electric self-driving cars can’t be public transportation.
Traffic segregation, car free zones, public transport, lower speed limits, car size based taxing, stricter driver license conditions, three strike limitations, temporal license suspensions schemes, these are all measurements that would reduce car accidents just as much, and could be implemented within the next week anywhere at very low cost. It’s not a pipe dream, it’s a lack of political will.
It doesn’t take several billion dollars of R&D onto a tech that will never work outside of 1% of the road network and could actually not reduce cars accidents at all once it faces real world conditions.
If the goal is to reduce traffic accidents, this is the most expensive, slowest and inefficient way to do it.