Soapbox

[moon_custafer]

Dear Google – normally I like your services, I really do; but I’m less than sanguine about your self-driving car idea – not for the usual “omgcrash!” reasons, but because – well, if there are enough people who don’t like driving themselves to make this worthwhile, shouldn’t we be improving public transit instead of pursuing a solution that will keep the same number of vehicles on the road as at present? I mean, your selling point is apparently “have your hands free on your morning commute to eat your breakfast, put on makeup, read etc.” I already have that. I take a bus. I can knit on my commute.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I just love these visions of the future where everybody in a subdivision gets in their self-driving car at the same time every morning and drives down the same highway to the same downtown. Oh well, at least they didn't put in an LRT at 5% of the cost because that would be (leaving aside the question of who put the highway in) people doing things in a group and that's Communism!

I wish we had a Hackers Division like the Amish do to evaluate new technologies to see if they make sense for their lifestyle or even if they make sense period. I guess it's too much to ask to keep up with the Amish though.

/Don

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Could we at least keep up with the Mennonites (New Order)? Karl Schroeder might be able to help.