Older people distrusting it tracks with all of my priors, every person I know who turns off all of the safety/driving aid features in their new cars are 60+ years old and it’s because they don’t trust them.
Meanwhile I’m doing hundred mile stretches on highways without doing much more than keeping a few fingers on the wheel.
jvnk on
I can’t quite put my finger on it but I feel like this is just another manifestation of the same center-left backlash to technological progress, where they lump any sort of ‘moonshot’ into one bucket of dumb ideas that totally disconnected techbros are trying
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Yeah I can see how (sans Tesla’s insatiable desire to flatten children) self driving tech can pretty soon overtake human safety standards in macro. It would be an immense net benefit to lean into it, in that sense.
The primary danger is assuming these would help congestion, when they are pretty liable to make it worse, if you use cab services as a proxy. By removing the main friction of driving you make people much more tolerant of traffic outside of the most time constrained scenarios, which then induces more demand for driving.
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I just want public transit man
Older people distrusting it tracks with all of my priors, every person I know who turns off all of the safety/driving aid features in their new cars are 60+ years old and it’s because they don’t trust them.
Meanwhile I’m doing hundred mile stretches on highways without doing much more than keeping a few fingers on the wheel.
I can’t quite put my finger on it but I feel like this is just another manifestation of the same center-left backlash to technological progress, where they lump any sort of ‘moonshot’ into one bucket of dumb ideas that totally disconnected techbros are trying
Yeah I can see how (sans Tesla’s insatiable desire to flatten children) self driving tech can pretty soon overtake human safety standards in macro. It would be an immense net benefit to lean into it, in that sense.
The primary danger is assuming these would help congestion, when they are pretty liable to make it worse, if you use cab services as a proxy. By removing the main friction of driving you make people much more tolerant of traffic outside of the most time constrained scenarios, which then induces more demand for driving.