07-08-2018, 08:13 PM
(07-08-2018, 10:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(07-08-2018, 03:32 AM)Galen Wrote:(07-07-2018, 12:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Self-driving cars will make travel, especially long-distance travel. less expensive. With fewer collisions they will have lower insurance rates. They will allow people with such conditions as narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and epilepsy to drive. -- well, more technically, take a car. They will allow people to command a car after those people are no longer fit to drive. They will lead to fewer traffic tickets for speeding, red-light violations, and stop-sign violations.
The problem is who controls the software and so ultimately controls the car. You might want to consider what
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/artic...ital-lives
Richard Stallman has to say about such things. Then there is the little matter of vulnerabilities that exist in all software that could be used by the malicious.
As usual pbrower is incapable of thinking beyond the obvious.
I know your philosophical position -- that we are all vulnerable to liberal bunglers, so we might as well have faith in a market unaccountable to anyone except those who own and manage the assets because such people truly know what they are doing. Well, Meyer Lansky and John Gotti both knew what they were doing, and they did what they did very well. Need I remind you of the Russian Mafia, masters of economic crime. I prefer to avoid dealings with people strongly motivated to hurt, humiliate, or exploit me. I am convinced that a complete reversion to unregulated economics is nearly certain to lead to something like the Planet Mongo (the Flash Gordon universe), basically feudalism with high technology. Does jus primae noctis operate there? It may or may not have under feudalism.
You idiot, it has nothing to do with liberal bunglers. It is about whether or not someone else gets to control property that you paid for. It is all about giving others power over your ability to travel because unless you control the software you do not control the car. In the final analysis the programmer has ultimate control over the software and do you trust him and the people he works for? Given the tendency of the human race to abuse any form of power this seems like a really bad idea.
Try thinking for a change.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises