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A Driverless Car in China Hit a Pedestrian. Social Media Users Are Siding With the Car (time.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'd argue they need to fuck up less than the alternative means of transport that we could be transitioning to if we weren't so dead-set on being car dependent. So dead-set, in fact, that we are allowing ourselves to be made complacent; by billion-dollar companies that peddle entirely new technology to excuse the death and destruction to our environment and social fabric that they've wrought upon us and continue to perpetuate; instead of us demanding new iterations of the old, safer, more affordable, more efficient, but unfortunately less profitable tech that our country sold out to those same monied interests for them to dismantle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I mean, I'm on board with the fuck-cars reasoning, but also recognize that we'll never make it happen except by our own extinction. And we're speedrunning that shit. Let's take whatever improvements we can realistically get, be it cars or whatever else, and hit what's left of Earth's ability to support life as comfortably as possible. If that includes running over fewer people by using R2D2 to cart us around vs our own monkey brains... cool! If it's something better, extra cool! I'll take progress wherever I can get it.