<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 1:42 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So... what happens when most of the traffic is self-driving? I'll tell ya<br>
what happens: it trains the proles to just walk across and let the car stop<br>
for the pedestrian, along with all the traffic behind it. If ya think it is<br>
a pain in the ass to drive across San Francisco NOW, just wait'll they<br>
figure out self drivers will just stop and not shoot your silly<br>
well-deserving ass if you walk across in front of it. They will figure it<br>
out. It can take an hour to drive across SF now. It will get worse,<br>
until... they will realize this isn't going to work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The volume of pedestrian traffic is not nearly high enough to bring car traffic to a standstill by itself. Also, jaywalking is still illegal; if pedestrians get abusive about this, severely inconveniencing people who have the police chief's ear, expect arrests until the problem goes back down.</div></div></div>