Ben Shiller

A technology that benefits everyone except the people raising the next generation. Here's why.

https://intelligenceatscale.substack.com/p/self-driving-cars-the-innovation?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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Self-Driving Cars: The Innovation That Benefits Everyone Except the People Who Are Raising the Next Generation

Imagine waking at four in the morning, stumbling to your car half-asleep, and drifting off as the vehicle navigates you to work two hours away.

Ben
Mar 4 at 3:18pmWeb
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@benshiller

Having a car drive for me is boring. I even prefer to drive than be a passenger.

Being present for those spontaneous conversations with your kids in the car, can't be replicated. A phone call isn't the same.

Sending your kids around in a robot is cold.

There actually is already exists technology that solves what you describe, without self driving cars.

It is called work from home.

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@benshiller

It has been me 3 hours a day, money and more importantly less pollution.

The technology is so good, it gets used even when we are in thr office. Just easier to collaborate when you can share your screen, rather than sitting in a board room, with one person in control of thr big screen.

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@benshiller
The family is happier, the pets are happier. It is healthier, less tiring. I can continue working into the early evening when I am most productive, without having to run out at a particular time to catch a train or drive to make it in time for X.

I can balance my hours and not be in the have to make my commute "productive" ie unpaid hours that only benifits the company.

Besides full self driving cars are still a unicorn. They don't exist.