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Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:00AM (#45606228)
> How it makes us less human

Fewer horses, too!

There is nothing natural about driving a car. Nothing democratic about a driver in front ferrying one or two in the back, both knowing each will rate the other, one knowing they are working for a tip, all while managing a fleet of apps whose owners run datacenters to rip them off.

Human-driven cars were a deadly necessity. But like lead pipes and child labour, we’re better off past it.

Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by darkwater on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:10AM (#45606372)
90% of what you said still relates to capitalism, more specifically surveillance capitalism.
Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:24AM (#45606548)
> 90% of what you said still relates to capitalism

It relates to economics. Do you think a central planner would swear off robotics because it feels dehumanizing?

Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by rozap on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:36AM (#45606693)
A central planner probably would've built mass transit back in the 50s. And most people wouldn't have cars. And the ones that did would be driving trabants.
Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by darkwater on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:44AM (#45606807)
> It relates to economics. Do you think a central planner would swear off robotics because it feels dehumanizing?

This is a straw man. There are many shades of grey between big companies, fueled by cheap VC money, that wipe out taxi drivers associated in small companies by operating at loss for many years and a centrally planned economy.

Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by Zambyte on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:02PM (#45608647)
Drivers were never a necessity for anyone but automobile manufacturing executives.
Re:DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in ... by bombcar on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:00PM (#45609327)
That gives me an idea. Autonomous taxis with cats in them.