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Eliminating vehicle deaths by making travel impossible

And here we see decades of automobile industry propaganda in action. There is only the car, or no mobility whatsoever. You remember how everybody was just trapped inside their houses for centuries until the Ford factories started cranking out Model Ts?

Cars will never be a sustainable solution to mass transit. The immense amount of waste in materials, energy, and land use will not be offset with AVs. I don’t think AVs are a bad idea in and of themselves. But, as the article points out, they’re not going to solve any major problems.

I had never really considered how induced demand would apply to AVs…

Also, we removed all of the hardware safeties that would prevent this from happening and entrusted it all to software.

Wow. You must have very stringent software engineering practices, with multiple levels of checks and test proce—

What? No, we just had one guy write all of the system’s code. It’s probably fine, right?

I just saw the title and the image wasn’t loading. I thought this was about Power over Ethernet.

It happens to all of us, eventually.

I think that’s the joke.

I recognize these vtubers, but don’t know what is even going on in this interaction.

Du

Lol, weaponizing toxic masculinity for climate justice, are we?

Ah, my favorite piece of Bubbline art!

But did they have themselves a popsicle?

I wouldn’t say 0% chance, but I agree that it is unhealthy to jump straight to conspiratorial thinking. Especially given just how little we know at this point.