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  • Self-driving cars can give an amazing level of autonomy and independence to people like never before. Think about elderly and disabled people who normally would have to rely on others to get around having the ability to do so on their own terms.

    Also think about freedom of time you would get back. Stuck in a traffic jam? Watch a movie, read a book, get some road head. Everyone suddenly has their own personal drivers.

    Accidents would decrease too (Waymo has published a peer reviewed paper showing that it’s almost 12x safer than people). No having to worry about drunk or tired drivers.

    Most people don’t care about driving, they just want a way to get from point A to B, and self-driving enables all of that.


  • Those wars were gonna happen sooner or later

    And you don’t believe this one will? Israel is attempting to push further in Jordan, China is just biding its time until the US is stretched thin and then is going for Taiwan. Russia is still fucking up in Ukraine.

    By themselves, they can all just be considered local skirmishes, but at the point they intersect (such as China invading Taiwan) then it will most likely spiral and escalate.

    But ultimately, what do we know. We’re both just armchair pundits with different opinions. Without a look into the inner machinations of global powers, it’s all just guessing.


  • It really depends on how far it spreads. Remember that WW1 ans WW2 didn’t have all countries jumping in at the same time, and for a while people thought those were also isolated until it grew.

    Problem is now, people want immediate definitions and are just waiting for the shoe to drop to say “see, we were right!” Could this be the start? Possibly. Could it just be another isolated skirmish? Also possibly. Time is the only true constant here.