Re:Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @07:18PM
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> Rather than autonomous cars, we should be focusing on Taleb's antifragile solutions like walking and biking.
Self-driving cars are an enabling technology for lower-cost, more-readily-available, on-demand transport, which is a wedge to dismantling the car-ownership-necessary society, which itself is a route to get to public support for community planning that better supports walking and biking as primary modes of transport for able citizens for tasks for which they are suitable, with automotive transport as a secondary form for situations and individuals for whom walking/biking are not suitable.
The two approaches are complementary, not opposed.
Self-driving cars are an enabling technology for lower-cost, more-readily-available, on-demand transport, which is a wedge to dismantling the car-ownership-necessary society, which itself is a route to get to public support for community planning that better supports walking and biking as primary modes of transport for able citizens for tasks for which they are suitable, with automotive transport as a secondary form for situations and individuals for whom walking/biking are not suitable.
The two approaches are complementary, not opposed.