See the Revel
moped and consider this straight talk, shoutout.
Download and ride,
all you need is a valid driver’s license.
Am struck by the
idea when it comes to roadway rules and regulations, the paramountcy of
capitalism, the advance of these ‘sharing” transportation businesses overrides
the concerns of public safety.
Certainly that is
the mark of the self-driving thrust.
Imagine a day when
people take to their pedal bikes or mopeds and find themselves in danger of
being in a collision with a “robot” car. What guilt, or compunction, does the
robot “feel” for running into and killing a human aboard one of these
unregulated contraptions ...
Could these developments will yield more rather than fewer traffic deaths? Isn’t it possible that the unemployed or underemployed person, chronically depressed and
high on prescription drugs, will be aboard one of these downloadable,
unregulated vehicles and when presented with the opportunity swing their rig
in front of a fast-moving robot-controlled car, choosing this way – not a bridge leap or
a gun or a pill overdose – to end it all, knowing full well that they won’t be
leaving their vale of tears with any guilt feelings they may have had for the
poor innocent soul driving on our highways today.
It would be a
clear conscience way to go; remember the old wood burned shingle hanging in a
family cottage back in the day: “Goodbye Cruel World” of a man standing inside
a toilet throne, with his hand on the pull chain …
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