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Are you familiar with the outrage that NSA spying of people's communication caused? What makes you think that after all the data breaches and privacy violations, people will be okay with someone recording them in a car? The recordings are permanent, unlike the taxi driver's vision. Plus, the point of the self-driving car is to free people up to do other things. It's like your own room. The ability to lock the car down is frightening, because as it was stated, in a centralized system it could be used by government in any way they want, the same thing they're doing with data - they said they're gonna collect just metadata, but the truth is much more disturbing.

Wouldn't people rather be in their own semi self-driving car, where they are not recorded and can go anywhere they want(including very long distances or bumpy terrains), plus they could take control of the car anytime they wanted? That would be a more reasonable option for many, not a taxi that you have no control over and where you're recorded like a rat in a laboratory.

I don't get basic income. Why would someone get resources just because they happen to be born as homo sapiens? It's not like they worked for it or developed themselves into a homo sapiens. Just dumb luck.

Another thing nobody is talking about:

Slavery of robots. Why is it okay to enslave robots, use and abuse them, buy/sell them and finally throw them into trash? But you can't do that with certain members of homo sapiens species. I don't get it.

Disagree. Uber is not winning in China for one reason only - Didi is better than Uber. It has nothing to do with Chinese government or people. Chinese people love foreign brands, which are seen as being better and higher quality. They buy iPhones, go to Startbucks etc.

Yes - Startbucks, Walmart, McDonalds and many other International companies are NOT banned in China. One thing these companies that are not banned have in common is that they do NOT threaten the social order of the country. Could Starbucks help start a revolution, like Facebook could? No, that is why Startbucks is not banned and Facebook is. You know, there are many local competitors of Starbucks, so why isn't government banning Starbucks to protect Chinese companies? Because they don't care about opinions of people or local_entrepreneurs. Their goal is not protectionism. Uber will not be banned, since it is harmless to government.

It is a myth that Chinese government bans foreign companies for the explicit goal of protecting local players. Chinese businessmen are better at figuring out what works in China, than some arrogant foreigners - that & few other factors is why they win in China[1].

The goal of banning certain companies is not protectionism of local companies, but protection of Chinese government and the bureaucrats(by censoring certain media and disabling channels that could be used for forming groups, which could upset social order). Remember, Chinese government doesn't respond to people or commercial entities. They don't need the money for political campaigns from entrepreneurs, which is why they don't need to promise them anything like ban of foreign companies.

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130605230952-18448-why-ebay...