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Chuck DarwinAfter a brutal 2023, the vibes around #self-#driving #cars are improving.
#Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a #horrific San Francisco #crash last fall, has #rebooted under new management,
while rival #Waymo is #expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles
and #Tesla is promising a new #robotaxi service.
Although Americans say they remain #wary of autonomous driving,
boosters insist there is nothing to fear.
In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both #safer and #cleaner than the status quo,
a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.
Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a #logical #flaw.
As a classic 19th-century theory known as a #Jevons #paradox explains,
even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly
— an enormous “if”
— they are🆘 likely to increase total #emissions and crash #deaths,
simply because ⭐️people will use them so much.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise
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Rebooted
Zelestian PhD memes#crying #movie #server #running #week #rebooted #before #script #finished #phdstudent #doctoratestudent #phd #doctorate #motivation #meme #memes #phdmotivation #phdmeme #phdmemes #phdlife #phdstudentlife #phdtroll #doctoratemotivation #doctoratememe #doctoratememes #doctoratelife #doctoratestudentlife #doctoratetroll
Steve Dustcircle 🌹
allesmoegliche✅
Adminhttps://activism.openworlds.info/public if you are intrested in a seed of what a #rebooted #indymedia newsfeed would look like.
AdminIts interesting that very little has changed, this is my blog from 10 years ago https://web.archive.org/web/20070617230552/http://hamishcampbell.com:80/
Currently exactly the projects I was talking about then are being #rebooted and am trying to use them as I did then. Will we have the same issues and problems?