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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by earthling8118 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:10AM (#34612519)
How do traffic tickets help the poor? They are more useful for punishing the poor significantly while being fairly inconsequential to the rich. They don't scale to your income level.
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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:00PM (#34613482)
The truly poor don't even own a car. They're desperately trying to cross the street before getting run over. They're relying on public transit if it even exists to get anywhere.
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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:33PM (#34614183)
You know where the truly poor come from? They come from the "slightly better off poor".

Creating a potentially ruinous expense that will occasionally be used to occasionally knock people in the latter group down to the former is anything but progressive and probably not good from a societal POV.

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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by Karrot_Kream on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:33AM (#34624251)
You can use this argument to justify any form of extant infrastructure that an upper class uses. It's such a broad argument as to be meaningless
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Re:San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:05AM (#34624981)
The difference here is that a great many of all the other classes use the same damn infrastructure.
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