I ask this question in light of seeing this article https://macwright.org/2019/07/27/beware-the-ethical-car.html and getting kind of worried to see these people, again, getting ready to reject a potential economically viable technical solution to an otherwise unsolvable social problem, because they don’t believe in such things, because they personally dislike the people proposing them, or because they would deep down prefer a solution that involves humanity atoning for its sins and changing its ways, which they ought to be able to see with their eyes is not something humans do. It is failing to happen in front of your eyes.
So, it may be very important that someone thoroughly answers this question, so that the most viable solution to transport emissions is pursued with the energy it deserves.
It may need positive, constructive political attention to be done really well, it may not be sufficient to leave it to the corporations. Without coordination, it would seem to me that empty superfluences of autonomous vehicles are incented to generate just as much congestion as we have now, jockying for customers by driving around unoccupied wherever they might be. It’s also not obvious that it will ever become cheap if a private monopoly manages to take ownership of the user’s experience, I’m sure Uber has no desire to share the road with other providers. If some provider manages to secure a monopoly on production, on algorithms, or on licensing… it seems unlikely, but the more disaffected the public are about autonomous vehicles the more likely it is to happen.
Motivation:
I ask this question in light of seeing this article https://macwright.org/2019/07/27/beware-the-ethical-car.html and getting kind of worried to see these people, again, getting ready to reject a potential economically viable technical solution to an otherwise unsolvable social problem, because they don’t believe in such things, because they personally dislike the people proposing them, or because they would deep down prefer a solution that involves humanity atoning for its sins and changing its ways, which they ought to be able to see with their eyes is not something humans do. It is failing to happen in front of your eyes.
So, it may be very important that someone thoroughly answers this question, so that the most viable solution to transport emissions is pursued with the energy it deserves.
It may need positive, constructive political attention to be done really well, it may not be sufficient to leave it to the corporations. Without coordination, it would seem to me that empty superfluences of autonomous vehicles are incented to generate just as much congestion as we have now, jockying for customers by driving around unoccupied wherever they might be. It’s also not obvious that it will ever become cheap if a private monopoly manages to take ownership of the user’s experience, I’m sure Uber has no desire to share the road with other providers. If some provider manages to secure a monopoly on production, on algorithms, or on licensing… it seems unlikely, but the more disaffected the public are about autonomous vehicles the more likely it is to happen.