[ExI] self driving cars

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Emlyn
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] self driving cars

 

On 16 May 2012 14:41, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>>.Google and Stanford have shown that controls technology is now sufficient
to make a car drive itself in traffic at normal speeds.  Here's your chance
to work your mind, think deeply and be a techno-prophet by really thinking
through the question of how this will change how we drive and how we live.

>. And that is the kind of thing which causes large scale social change. The
pendulum of morality in the anglosphere has swung waaaay to the right over
my lifetime. Self driving cars, and the freedom from responsibility that
they bring, might just push the pendulum back the other way. We could have
the new 60s on our hands.

Wooohooo! Bring it ON!  I might even still have a tie dye shirt stuffed back
somewhere.

>.2c - New Rock & Roll lifestyle

 

>.If the car drives itself, then why do you need a responsible adult in
charge of the vehicle?   Emlyn

This is exactly what I thought too Emlyn.  Think of the safety angle on it.
Think of it when you see a Detroit filled with teens bopping down the road
blasting the radio, experiencing the transcendent joy of being a carefree
teenager, singing, laughing, groping, living fully those few fleeting years
in which responsibilities are few and opportunities are many, doing
everything other than paying attention to whatever it is they are about to
run over, generally acting pretty much the way you and I did when we were
16.  I would rather have software, even if developed by Microsoft, operate
that Detroit than any of questionable biology-based control systems in that
Detroit.

spike

 

 

 

 

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