Last week Uber started using self-driving cars for ride sharing in San Francisco. The CA DMV has ordered Uber to halt its autonomous car program. Pick a side:
I wish upstate New York would get Uber. NYC does. WTF is up with these stupid politicians? We need it more than they do. I get tired of them catering to then when they got buses, taxis and a subway. There's other parts of New York besides the city. Let them test it
If it doesn't work..well
As of February this year, google cars only had one at fault crash. It was a minor crash after google cars had driven 1.4 million miles. On average, a person drives about 800,000 miles in their lifetime. Which means google cars are almost twice as safe as somebody who has only had one at fault accident in their life
We aren't going to get useful autonomous cars without road testing and learning where they will make mistakes in real life so corrections can be made. I can't think of a better way to do this than using a human driver to supervise and correct the car.
I wonder if Uber and the California DMV could compromise by providing extra training and a special driver's license for driving experimental cars.
I am in agreement, but CA want the issue of the vehicle running the red light addressed, as well as apparently, there is a statute that required Uber to register the vehicles as autonomous (or something like that), to which Uber refuses, and feel the law doesn't apply to them. Honestly, I find CA law rather dizzying, so I didn't read further into it. I think it's knee-jerk, but as the video shows (I linked an article with video a few comments up), there was a pedestrian entering the crosswalk when the vehicle ran the light....
I hope that driver isn't working for them anymore.
If CA has laws on the books that will allow uber to use these cars, uber should follow those laws. But if CA is just getting in the way, then they're wrong.
Capitalism always leads to corporatism. And besides, the work or starve nature of capitalism means the working class will fight automation and things because it will drive them out of work, despite it being otherwise a good thing
The only difference between capitalism and so called "corporatism" is just theoretical. In reality capitalism is indistinguishable from capitalism. You can say that the certain ills of society come from state intervention in the market or "corporatism," but you can't stop it. Capitalists are taught to use their wealth to make good investments. Capitalists invest their money into the state apparatus because they get a good return. Even if we went as far as to disband the state, capitalists would create a coalition amongst themselves and recreate the state because it's a good investment.
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