I think the assumption that self driving cars will magically be available to all when they need them is foolishly optimistic. The only way to make them safe enough is to have dedicated travel lanes -- you know, like the bike lanes Doug Ford wants to rip up in Toronto.
Based on the observable evidence, humans are incapable of planning much beyond next week and it is that inability to address reality that is the biggest threat to our survival. Perhaps this would be a good time for people to re-read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves To Death?"
AVs CAN be made to be much safer than human drivers. The question is which computer settings are chosen. I predict an aggressive setting will be chosen because the politics favor cars and mobility, so we will optimize for those, as we have for the last four generations.
Shouldn't this study also apply when designing houses? For too long when designing dwellings infirmaties have been ingored to the point that most boomers are at the point where their houses do not work for them. i.e. electrical outlets too low, round door knobs are harder to grasp, stairs maybe too steep, etc.
In other words, shouldn't the building codes address this?
Really? The generation that gave us this sprawling nightmare of a built environment wants to keep it just as it is forever and ever and ever? I'm shocked! shocked! to discover dissociation from reality going on in this establishment. UGH.
The exact thing you described here happened to my mother when she moved from our semi-walkable, public-transitable neighborhood in Vermont back to our home state of Ohio to be "near" her great grandkids. She moved into the only available subsidized apartment she could find at the time, located in a rural-industrial area with random retail services in shopping strips along a multi-lane state highway that includes no pedestrian infrastructure. The parents of the great-grandkids moved ALL the way out into the country, leaving my mom behind without a car, without company, and so disabled by rheumatoid arthritis that she could no longer walk the 1/2 mile to the local "corner store" (Dollar General) for milk. A couple months later, the grandkids found her nearly dead in her apartment, an event that set off a cascade of new medical issues, ending in her death from rapid-onset congestive heart failure a few months later.
I'm not saying her living situation killed her. There were many factors and complications. But being old and sick and lonely with very little support was a major and precipitating factor. But hey, she was "safe" from "migrant crime"!
I wonder when people will wake up and realize we need the world population to stop growing; and the only way to make that succeed would be a fairer distribution of wealth worldwide. Housing is part of a much bigger problem!
Yet one more argument in the pile that tells me I’m an outlier among my generation (as well as one more argument supporting my view that you can’t cram 75 million people into a single stereotype).
Thank you Lloyd. In psychological terms, when we blame we are constellating 'the child' in our psyche. And the child will always find something to support it's blame.
I think the assumption that self driving cars will magically be available to all when they need them is foolishly optimistic. The only way to make them safe enough is to have dedicated travel lanes -- you know, like the bike lanes Doug Ford wants to rip up in Toronto.
Based on the observable evidence, humans are incapable of planning much beyond next week and it is that inability to address reality that is the biggest threat to our survival. Perhaps this would be a good time for people to re-read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves To Death?"
AVs CAN be made to be much safer than human drivers. The question is which computer settings are chosen. I predict an aggressive setting will be chosen because the politics favor cars and mobility, so we will optimize for those, as we have for the last four generations.
What? Folks don’t want to have a convenient store on the corner? Frightened by a bar or cannabis shop. This is beyond NIMBY.
I see you’ve met my parents
Shouldn't this study also apply when designing houses? For too long when designing dwellings infirmaties have been ingored to the point that most boomers are at the point where their houses do not work for them. i.e. electrical outlets too low, round door knobs are harder to grasp, stairs maybe too steep, etc.
In other words, shouldn't the building codes address this?
Yes absolutely.
Really? The generation that gave us this sprawling nightmare of a built environment wants to keep it just as it is forever and ever and ever? I'm shocked! shocked! to discover dissociation from reality going on in this establishment. UGH.
The exact thing you described here happened to my mother when she moved from our semi-walkable, public-transitable neighborhood in Vermont back to our home state of Ohio to be "near" her great grandkids. She moved into the only available subsidized apartment she could find at the time, located in a rural-industrial area with random retail services in shopping strips along a multi-lane state highway that includes no pedestrian infrastructure. The parents of the great-grandkids moved ALL the way out into the country, leaving my mom behind without a car, without company, and so disabled by rheumatoid arthritis that she could no longer walk the 1/2 mile to the local "corner store" (Dollar General) for milk. A couple months later, the grandkids found her nearly dead in her apartment, an event that set off a cascade of new medical issues, ending in her death from rapid-onset congestive heart failure a few months later.
I'm not saying her living situation killed her. There were many factors and complications. But being old and sick and lonely with very little support was a major and precipitating factor. But hey, she was "safe" from "migrant crime"!
I wonder when people will wake up and realize we need the world population to stop growing; and the only way to make that succeed would be a fairer distribution of wealth worldwide. Housing is part of a much bigger problem!
Yet one more argument in the pile that tells me I’m an outlier among my generation (as well as one more argument supporting my view that you can’t cram 75 million people into a single stereotype).
Thank you Lloyd. In psychological terms, when we blame we are constellating 'the child' in our psyche. And the child will always find something to support it's blame.
The real solution to what we Boomers have wrought is the chant from a movie mostly only Boomers will recall; & I quote:
"Carousel! Carousel! Carousel! Carousel!"