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Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 143

Yet another unserious question. Here's an unserious question of my own. What's next? Obesity kills millions in this country and costs the US money through higher insurance premiums. Are we going to ban eating next? Or just leaving the house opens one up to all sorts of dangers. Are we going to ban people from leaving their house? All in the name of protecting lives I guess.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 143

We do NOT need a future where our transportation is controlled by tech megacorporations. We will NEVER get personal AVs. The processing power they require and the underlying software is far too expensive for that. And again, this is NOT about safety. It's about liberty. If somehow the technology became cheap enough to have personally owned AVs, then sure, go nuts. But it's NOT going to go down like that.

Comment So? (Score 2) 143

This really isn't the concern. There are far greater concerns about the cost of operating AVs and the need for these companies to eventually recoup their investments. Once these things have reached a certain critical mass, these companies will start lobbying governments to ban human drivers in their markets of operation (mainly cities for now), under the guise of public safety, in order to establish their monopoly on transportation.

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