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hunter

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28. I think younger people who don't own cars or drive...

Reply to CK_John (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 08:50 PM

Jun 2016

... and get around by calling up self-driving cars from their smart phones will have little patience with older drivers and their cars.

Eventually private ownership of automobiles will become too onerous and too expensive for most people.

Those who get along fine without owning a car will point and laugh at people who can't find a parking place.

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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