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I really don’t care about the fate of engineers and techies. I care more where society in general is going — and I don’t like fact that technologies that should be liberating are being used to create an infrastructure for corporate surveillance and control in the name of misguided notions of absolute safety.

Especially when corporations and government are sharing a bed.

You also do realize that maximization of road use by vehicles and increases usage will make things more difficult for non-autonomous users like pedestrians and bicycles.

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Trucks are good to if you need to transport big items. Trucks don’t look dated like cars.

Dated is a good thing in my book. Most cars made in the last 10 years look like utter crap in my book. Small windows, high beltlines that make them feel like prison vans inside. Yuck!

I much preferred the glassy, airy look of 80s and 90s cars.

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spd, you like to me make cost/benefit comparisons. How many people are killed per year based on human incompetence? Compare that to the potential number of deaths due to car hacking or tech failure?

I think self-driving cars would be better, safety wise.

I don’t give a rodent’s asshole about safety, frankly. World’s overpopulated anyway.

I prefer a world with a minimum of surveillance, even if that means a higher risk of death or injury.

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If you have the money, you can special-order. Go to different dealers till you find one willing to do so without violent means of persuasion.

This is one reason why direct sales should be allowed everywhere, and dealer parasites kicked to the curb. You should be able to order a custom car online and either have it trucked to your door or pick it up at a freight terminal.

Dealers should be relegated to test-drive centers and authorized mechanics.

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See also:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway

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No. It will make for dumb entitled cattle wanting to commute 100 miles each way because they can play with their electronic fondleslab in the car. Congestion will return to the same levels rapidly with likely higher levels of energy use.

Not to mention that the only exercise a lot of Americans get is walking across the parking lot to their cars. Take that away by having a car pick them up at the door, and you get Wall-E nation.

Plus, it’s likely to destroy public rail transit. I like trains. I like being able to get up and walk around on a ~300 mile trip, and maybe have a nice random but interesting seatmate to talk to.

Isolating people even more by having them either be in a car, at work, at planned activities, or at home is great for social control. But it sucks for human interaction.

Maybe I’m not meant for this country.

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Prepaid phones exist.
So does airplane mode.
So does leaving the bloody thing at home.

Scroogle’s model of self-driving cars means you’ll have a limpet attached to your arse whenever you travel. No fucking thanks.

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Camry and Accord are boring crap. At least you can still get the Accord with a real transmission, but that’s about it.

And no thanks to the idea of car-sharing. I don’t want to have to use my credit card and have my GPS coordinates recorded for eternity whenever I decide to go somewhere by car.

Scroogle’s model of car-sharing will be the death of public transit and the start of the total panopticon in the US. Screw that idea with a turbocharged jackhammer. Hope there’s total economic and societal collapse before it comes to pass.

Owning a car isn’t that expensive so long as you actually own it. Not rent it from the bank.

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Live and let live. You weren’t guaranteed a view when you bought the place.

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A tha’ho? If I wanted to drive a UPS truck, I’d apply for a job at UPS. I want to sit nice and low, in the car, not in a raised bathtub.

Nah. Plenty of used cars out there that you can get for 10 grand or under and will run a long time.

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Not all loans are GSE-backed…

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AN: chaos at the top often trickles down.

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Until they mistake you for a lowlife and beat you up or shoot you.

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Did you have your phone set to record? You should have — filing a police complaint for terroristic threats would have been interesting.

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There are exceptions to be sure (maybe they saw something on the x-ray), but the shoe/ID/etc carnival is much less common over there than here. Most Americans don’t get that type of treatment either — this would have been special attention in either country.

And if 0.00001% of flights get blown up, so what? Part of freedom is some level of risk.

We jibber and thump our chests like enraged baboons whenever someone discusses taking our freedom to own guns away, even though 30-40 thousand people die from firearms every year in the US.

But when there’s a remote possibility of a plane being blown up, when an illegal immigrant with no more likelihood of killing someone than the average American might get into the US, or when more drugs might get into the US we say … “yes. please. master. take our rights. it’s for our own good. for the good of our country. please, sir.”

Hypocrisy driven by a government and media in bed with corporate interests. There’s big money in selling guns, even to people who shouldn’t be handling so much as a Super-Soaker. There’s also big money in security technology, ID technology, policing, imprisonment, etc. Follow the money, and you’ll realize how corrupt we are.

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