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Alex4Martinez

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1. It may be inevitable, but it's probably not a good thing.

Reply to NCTraveler (Original post)

Tue Apr 18, 2017, 02:34 PM

Apr 2017

In the long run, this is the kind of development that small government free market types salivate over.

Rather than invest in public transit, they promote automobile dependency on, laughably, publicly funded roads.

Will my landscaper and housekeeper and nanny friends benefit from this new technology?

No, they'll be stuck in traffic stressing out while rich assholes in Teslas will be texting their stockbrokers and getting richer.

/rant

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Apple joins Tesla in approval to test self-driving cars on California streets [View all] NCTraveler Apr 2017 OP

It may be inevitable, but it's probably not a good thing. Alex4Martinez Apr 2017 #1

Better for the environment. More safe. NCTraveler Apr 2017 #2

Not better for the environment because it perpetuates bad planning. Alex4Martinez Apr 2017 #3

The private automobile IS mass transit. MindPilot Apr 2017 #4

Um. No. Alex4Martinez Apr 2017 #5