Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by Aelinsaar on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:00PM
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"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -The Shirky Principle
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by heimatau on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:20PM
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Great quote. I call it corruption, self-preservation that hurts the masses, and status quo thinking. Technology is going to hopefully disrupt all of this.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by Aelinsaar on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:40PM
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It's the only thing that can, if history is any guide. Society and "ethics" are so often a function of our technology, however simple we now consider that tech to be.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by kaonashi on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:15PM
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> just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons
Naw, they just lobby for new reasons to lock people up.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
by carapace on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:39PM
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I can't say that it isn't apocryphal, but the worst example I've ever heard of this was an ambulance-driver's union campaigning against a law that was expected to reduce accidents... As I say, I don't know if it was true or not. I hope not!
just like universal unbreakable glass might hurt glaziers.
just like getting people to commit less crimes might hurt for profit prisons.
just like people not getting attacked might hurt self-defense courses.
I realize this is perfect-world absolutist thinking but industries that exist because of something wrong in the world shouldn't have a right to exist when that wrong is removed.