Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
by jessaustin on Monday May 11, 2015 @03:43PM
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And if there were no self-important driver to get pissed off, would "jaywalking" even be a thing? If the first automobile drivers had been poor folks with little political power (haha yeah right), "jaywalking" would never have been made a crime in the first place. Some streets will have heavy pedestrian traffic; the rational robot routes around them to lower-traffic streets.
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Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
by oldmanjay on Monday May 11, 2015 @04:46PM
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I find your post somewhat detuned from reality. For instance, jaywalking is rarely a crime. Also, jaywalking becoming a thing was precisely related to cars becoming federated to the "poor folks with little political power" because in many communities, there is heavy car traffic that was prioritized over walking due to damn near everyone having at least one car.
Re:The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
by jessaustin on Monday May 11, 2015 @08:07PM
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Some retuning would seem to be in order:
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
All of this happened by the mid-1920s. As of 1925, the number of cars per household in USA was 0.6. (It would later peak in the 1980s at 2.2.)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transportation_Deployment_Caseb...
Is your hypothesis that the poor folks got cars first?