I thought of them too, but they’ve got their filthy money-laundering hands in too many pockets and they’re controlling too many people—it would be a losing battle. The triads would be a more realistic target.
Besides, they literally take our people hostage, wear ablative carbon-composite / high-tech-metal-alloy armor, and lug around gallons of flamethrower fuel. They also tend to hunt in packs¹ and establish war camps on our bridges every morning.
We’ll need a lot more than one good politician and a few bribes to the media to win that war.²
Most deaths involve multiple of them, IIRC.
But please, if you can, I strongly encourage anyone to prove me wrong. The implication here is that lots of science and engineering and money is needed to fix the dangers and reduce the risks. The kind of science and engineering and money that Google already started doing a while ago.
Well, there is a movement afoot to tame their wild nature. Some day being trampled or squished into pulp by these creatures will be but a distant memory, as their descendants follow the path of domestication well traveled by other animals, the past perils replayed only in the highly scripted spectacle of corrida de coches.
What’s probably going to be really difficult is not getting automated cars on the market, but getting all the non-automated cars off the road. An entirely automated traffic flow would be much safer than a partly automated traffic flow, but there are going to be lots of holdouts who refuse to trust an automated car over their own driving ability, or who simply can’t or won’t buy an up-to-date car.
When automated cars are at 90% or so, and if you keep on getting statistics like how many accidents and deaths are caused by humans versus machines, I think the pressure to go all automated will be strong. Some municipalities and states will go for it, and then it’ll be hard to get anywhere with a human-driven car.
Your example political speech makes me want to just run for office and do it.
“I now solemnly vow, on all honors, to rid our country of the vile terrorists who call themselves the Slippery Baths. If I am elected, our people shall be safe and squicky-clean once more!”
Hey, I figure it’s almost worth a try. If someone could find the right Mass Media people to bribe for help, I think there’s a lot of potential here.
What about the mindless roaring four-wheeled blood-thirsty flashy-eyed monsters roaming our streets?
Adjusts her prior that you are a biker in Seattle waaaaay upward
I thought of them too, but they’ve got their filthy money-laundering hands in too many pockets and they’re controlling too many people—it would be a losing battle. The triads would be a more realistic target.
Besides, they literally take our people hostage, wear ablative carbon-composite / high-tech-metal-alloy armor, and lug around gallons of flamethrower fuel. They also tend to hunt in packs¹ and establish war camps on our bridges every morning.
We’ll need a lot more than one good politician and a few bribes to the media to win that war.²
Most deaths involve multiple of them, IIRC.
But please, if you can, I strongly encourage anyone to prove me wrong. The implication here is that lots of science and engineering and money is needed to fix the dangers and reduce the risks. The kind of science and engineering and money that Google already started doing a while ago.
Well, there is a movement afoot to tame their wild nature. Some day being trampled or squished into pulp by these creatures will be but a distant memory, as their descendants follow the path of domestication well traveled by other animals, the past perils replayed only in the highly scripted spectacle of corrida de coches.
What’s probably going to be really difficult is not getting automated cars on the market, but getting all the non-automated cars off the road. An entirely automated traffic flow would be much safer than a partly automated traffic flow, but there are going to be lots of holdouts who refuse to trust an automated car over their own driving ability, or who simply can’t or won’t buy an up-to-date car.
All good points, I addressed some of them in my previous comment on self-driving cars.
When automated cars are at 90% or so, and if you keep on getting statistics like how many accidents and deaths are caused by humans versus machines, I think the pressure to go all automated will be strong. Some municipalities and states will go for it, and then it’ll be hard to get anywhere with a human-driven car.
I suspect getting the prevalence as high as 90% will be pretty difficult itself.