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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

All cars are now have a perfect implementation of self driving.

All traffic is now gone. Road rage, gone. People everywhere are happier. Commutes suck less. People take more road trips to see more outside their comfort zone. Lyft and Uber really explode, no more driver needed, just summon a car and go.

Utopia would be achieved shortly after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Enormous unemployment from the transit sector spikes immediately and causes a depression.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

your cartopia sounds like hell. last time I checked Humans were the dominant species, not fucking cars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

30% of the work force is in transportation related jobs.

The Great Depression saw only 22% of unemployment at its peak.

Your well meaning wish would destroy millions of lives while tanking the developed world economies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, maybe add a phase-in period.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd wish for everybody to be able to teleport. Such chaos.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would not teleport even if I could. I don't want to die only to be replaced by a clone that thinks its the original me. Give me a portal I can step though, and I'll step through it, but outright teleportation is a no from me :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This depends on the mechanism of teleportation. The Star Trek matter-energy conversion with quantum state duplication is absolutely what you described. The ability to make personal wormholes, folding space, passing through a hyperdimensional space, or macro-scale quantum tunneling are all methods of teleportation that don't involve any overt destruction of your corporeal entity and are all technically feasible under the laws of physics or mathematics. The real issue is the potential for exotic forms of radiation that cook you and anyone around you instantly on arrival. The real wish is "I wish everyone could teleport without risk of death, damage, or adverse environmental repercussions."

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I would have absolutely no problem with that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wish 2: all cars have perfectly efficient solar generation and power train.

No more car based pollution. Climate crisis fixed (not really but a good step forward). Save people everywhere money.