Re:Is your city getting ready for autonomous vehicles?
by kbos87 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:29PM
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I can appreciate the core of what heβs trying to do.
Autonomous vehicles can bring about a lot of good. They can also bring about massive consolidation of work and wealth in the hands of the few fleet owners that will inevitably emerge.
A society in which driving, one of the principal means of employment, no longer exists, is going to suffer a long list of negative externalities that the proponents never take into account.
A better solution would be to encourage the growth of autonomous vehicles but create an environment in which the ownership of said vehicles is largely distributed.
Autonomous vehicles can bring about a lot of good. They can also bring about massive consolidation of work and wealth in the hands of the few fleet owners that will inevitably emerge.
A society in which driving, one of the principal means of employment, no longer exists, is going to suffer a long list of negative externalities that the proponents never take into account.
A better solution would be to encourage the growth of autonomous vehicles but create an environment in which the ownership of said vehicles is largely distributed.