[LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

[Kim Holburn]

I have lived in cities where pedestrians can just walk over a road and cars will avoid them (mostly).  Every country and city is different of course.

You say "If my driverless car is stopping every few metres while on city streets to allow a jaywalker across" like it's a bad thing.  Also like a DRIVER.  If you are in a driverless car you are not a DRIVER any more.  You will be in the back seat doing something else.  Surfing the interwebs or whatever people in the driverless car era do.  You probably won't notice.  


> On 2017/Mar/23, at 1:35 PM, Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Jim Birch wrote:
> 
>> This could result in cities that are more pedestrian-oriented, which is
>> arguably a good thing. It could also make vehicle travel slower and perhaps
>> even unworkable with some imperious pedestrian populations. It might
>> eventually result in jaywalking laws being dusted off and revamped.
> 
> Some very good points.
> 
> It also occurs to me that jaywalking may become socially unacceptable. If my driverless car is stopping every few metres while on city streets to allow a jaywalker across I'm going to develop a negative view of jaywalking, and so is everyone else.  It could quickly be viewed as a very anti-social behaviour.  Combined with appropriate legal sanctions I think this should deal with the problem.  It's an interesting example of society adapting to technogical change.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
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