Comment by ricardobeat

17 hours ago

Does that skew really matter? Nearly all of those conditions are avoided by autonomous vehicles.

Using public safety as a cudgel to mandate adherence to any technology is a nonstarter.

The imposition is huge. We’re talking about privacy, movement and its relationships with housing/work/family management/safety.

At the very least, it needs to be plainly stated that this concept is not being studied out of curiosity. A few companies have a gigantic investment in seeing massive, government-facilitated adoption that creates guaranteed customers and gated entry.

  • i'm kinda hating how privacy is becoming a boogeyman to oppose literally anything. i'm predicting that public will catch hold of this rhetoric eventually.

    literally any. single. thing. gets opposed on privacy grounds. and its a good move because technology by definition works by passing information around so it lends to being opposed this way everywhere.

    i think Foucault is partly responsible for this with his whole panopticon nonsense.