Considering that Tesla's phoney autonomous driving is racking up a body count (17 as of 2019)and crash count (736) it's no surprise that people have grown to despise these cars. Tech bros like Musk are proving themselves to be be a danger to society. If you think this is bad, just wait until his Starlink space junk occludes the night sky and rains down thousands of toxic materials upon the earth when the satellite fall out of orbit on a daily basis in a few years.
But hey - it may start Kessler effect aka collisional cascading which in turn will make most of tech grind to halt.
On a diff tangent: I still cannot believe that carmaker can limit/change functionality of a car after purchase - and people buy it. Hint: they got us to us creeping. We are rentiers - we are buying books from Amazon, or apps and games and not really owning them.
Great piece. The question is if humans are intelligent enough to make the right decisions here. Do we stop using Amazon because they do not handle their workers humanely? Can we (maybe if you're well off, but otherwise)? Do we recognise that we're the product and even if we do, do we 'not play ball' or vote for politicians who reign this in? Some do and even if we recognise those may be heroes, I am not optimistic that they will be listened to. As they weren't then.
disingenuous to suggest that self driving cars are safer when they account for such a miniscule fraction of vehicles on the road, and as SF's experiences show, the technology just isn't capable of performing at the level needed to make a mass rollout to replace human drivers at all practical. if we really want safer transit, we should be reducing the need for fallible human drivers by eliminating cars and building more mass public transit, not wasting our time with a futile project. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/04/why-san-franciscos-robotaxi-rollout-has-been-such-a-mess.html
Considering that Tesla's phoney autonomous driving is racking up a body count (17 as of 2019)and crash count (736) it's no surprise that people have grown to despise these cars. Tech bros like Musk are proving themselves to be be a danger to society. If you think this is bad, just wait until his Starlink space junk occludes the night sky and rains down thousands of toxic materials upon the earth when the satellite fall out of orbit on a daily basis in a few years.
No joke. Samantha Lawler just described the problems with Starlink space junk on Techtonic - https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136860
It was a really informative show, Mark. I've been listening to Techtronic since you first started on WFMU. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, E.R.!
Well I love to see all this — will have to dive into that Starlink space junk ep asap, cheers
But hey - it may start Kessler effect aka collisional cascading which in turn will make most of tech grind to halt.
On a diff tangent: I still cannot believe that carmaker can limit/change functionality of a car after purchase - and people buy it. Hint: they got us to us creeping. We are rentiers - we are buying books from Amazon, or apps and games and not really owning them.
There was a ruckus lately in Poland about trains which got bricked if you try to repair them in not-brand shop - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/
There's some explicit political motivations to some attacks which should be noted. Here's a communiqué about other incidents, not the crowd one:
https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/11/san-francisco-self-driving-cars-attacked-in-solidarity-with-palestine-and-atlanta/
Great piece. The question is if humans are intelligent enough to make the right decisions here. Do we stop using Amazon because they do not handle their workers humanely? Can we (maybe if you're well off, but otherwise)? Do we recognise that we're the product and even if we do, do we 'not play ball' or vote for politicians who reign this in? Some do and even if we recognise those may be heroes, I am not optimistic that they will be listened to. As they weren't then.
actively dangerous and irresponsible to suggest self driving cars are dangerous when they are infinitely safer than human drivers on the road.
disingenuous to suggest that self driving cars are safer when they account for such a miniscule fraction of vehicles on the road, and as SF's experiences show, the technology just isn't capable of performing at the level needed to make a mass rollout to replace human drivers at all practical. if we really want safer transit, we should be reducing the need for fallible human drivers by eliminating cars and building more mass public transit, not wasting our time with a futile project. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/04/why-san-franciscos-robotaxi-rollout-has-been-such-a-mess.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/technology/driverless-taxis-cars-cities.html
small typo, first sentence of third paragraph from the end seems to be missing a word in “Might it be because are legitimately angry”