Motherfuckers will do anything except build high speed rail

  • Cammy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    They’d rather have cars talk to each other with shitty ai than have people talk to each other on public transit.

    The atomization is real and deliberate.

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Atomization is part of it, but mostly car dependency allows them to commodify and exploit every aspect of our lives for profit: Car dependency also forces cities to sprawl out which makes land many times more expensive and forces everyone to take on massive debt for single family homes. The destruction of nature gives people crippling depression which generates billions for big pharma. Massive stroads make our cities too dangerous and stressful to run in or bicycle which forces us to pay for gym memberships. The lack of recreation in nature also forces us to spend money on shitty hobbies we don’t actually enjoy. And the destruction of our communities makes us far more susceptible to propaganda

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    "The Department has reached a key milestone today in laying out a national plan for the transportation industry that has the power to save lives and transform the way we travel,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said in a statement. “The Department recognizes the potential safety benefits of V2X, and this plan will move us closer to nationwide adoption of this technology.”

    99% sure this initiative will go the way of the hyperloop and get stalled indefinitely. This Vehicle to Everything concept is already a thing in GPS software like Google Maps where everyone who has google maps is also communicating to everyone else on the road who uses it. Also most people don’t own and are unable to buy the latest and greatest vehicles that take advantage of this anyway.

    China: ∞ ; US: 0.

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    this was pretty much inevitable… i once asked the CEO of Cruise whether he foresaw the self-driving cars talking to each other and then to other cars, street lights, etc and he just kinda shrugged. It was too far off in the future considering they didn’t, and still don’t really, have cars that can drive by themselves.

    im a bit surprised that the government is getting ahead of the cutting edge car tech tho