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CK_John

(10,005 posts) Fri Jun 3, 2016, 11:57 AM Jun 2016

With driverless cars due in 2018 will there be a new Luddite movement??? [View all]

At its peak, more British soldiers were fighting the Luddites than were fighting Napoleon.

I wonder with the hugh anti science mood of the country being pandered to by GOP be the beginning of a very violent Luddite movement.

Could the anti driverless cars violent Luddite close down the interstate.

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With driverless cars due in 2018 will there be a new Luddite movement??? [View all] CK_John Jun 2016 OP

Everyone able to post here will be long buried and dead before that ever happens.. snooper2 Jun 2016 #1

Haw! My Orbital Mind Control Lasers will keep everyone in line. FSogol Jun 2016 #3

There already are plenty of modern Luddites. HuckleB Jun 2016 #2

I for one welcome our robot overlords. librechik Jun 2016 #4

Me, too! GoCubsGo Jun 2016 #15

Not to mention people with disabilities thucythucy Jun 2016 #19

Or, people who are beyond the age where they can drive safely. GoCubsGo Jun 2016 #21

There is a lot not to like about driverless cars. Doesn't make one a Luddite. Throd Jun 2016 #5

No. The anti-Luddite robots are also due to be released in 2018. Nye Bevan Jun 2016 #6

Whenever they become commercially viable whatthehey Jun 2016 #7

What do cars have to do with science??? hunter Jun 2016 #8

The auto is second largest purchase of homeowners and largest CK_John Jun 2016 #9

Yep, and everyone knows someone who has been killed or maimed by automobiles... hunter Jun 2016 #11

So do you think there will be a new Luddite violent moment as per the OP? CK_John Jun 2016 #12

Not when people figure out how easy sex is with your hands off the wheel and eyes off the road. Nt. thucythucy Jun 2016 #20

I think younger people who don't own cars or drive... hunter Jun 2016 #28

If cars become too expensive for most people then why would there be a lack of parking places? former9thward Jun 2016 #29

The parking places will have been removed for housing, wider sidewalks, bikeways, and green spaces. hunter Jun 2016 #31

Things weren't much better when the cities were jammed with horses Fumesucker Jun 2016 #34

And this is currently why it's the most pressing issue of the 2016 election. nt Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2016 #10

Yes, looking at 70% unemployment and the transportation system CK_John Jun 2016 #13

Really? former9thward Jun 2016 #30

Why narrowed down to just the GOP? The2ndWheel Jun 2016 #14

no... next question Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #16

One need only look at the reaction to new operating systems to know what it will be like Egnever Jun 2016 #17

Driverless Cars? RobinA Jun 2016 #18

The point is that you can have your computer on while traveling KamaAina Jun 2016 #22

I'm worried about the millions who will not have a job. CK_John Jun 2016 #32

So if a person is skeptical Mendocino Jun 2016 #23

Ahem.... Xolodno Jun 2016 #24

So everyone that is not interested... sendero Jun 2016 #25

The Luddites were people directly threatened with job loss by automation jberryhill Jun 2016 #26

People have wandered onto the interstate to protest police violence... Why? Fumesucker Jun 2016 #35

There will be a bunch of false claims LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2016 #27

Luddites were engineers, mechanics...the people who built and maintained the machines. Crash2Parties Jun 2016 #33