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Re:Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars by arjie on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:12AM (#13469422)
If twenty percent of the population controls eighty percent of the wealth, why should you ever care about the remaining eighty percent of the population? They can't pay you, so your success or failure in their markets need not determine your success or failure in general.

Just like with electricity, the Internet, and air travel, the poor will be last. And a lot of people can do very well for themselves by putting the poor last.

Re:Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars by aninhumer on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:12AM (#13470467)
I'm not really sure what your point is here, other than "global inequality sucks"?

Should we arbitrarily stop development of self-driving cars until poorer countries' infrastructure can support them? How would that help anyone?

Re:Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars by Ntrails on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:24AM (#13471094)
There was no implied position on global inequality being good or bad - just a reality check. Peru will be irrelevant to the viability of the project in the short term