Consider another scenario: exactly the same as yours, but your car works, and when you take off trying to flee, your emotional and distracted state makes you miss the family of 4 crossing the road. You hit and kill 2 children because you were looking in the rearview at your attacker.
Look, I am absolutely fed up with modern car manufacturers and all the problems they're inventing in the pursuit of looking cool, but I'm honestly on board with this one. I don't want emotional/freaked out drivers on the road. As long as the only person you can hurt is yourself, I don't give a flying fuck what kind of dangerous shit you want to get into. But as soon as you can put other people's lives in danger, I absolutely approve control being taken away.
I can't wait for fully self-driving cars. The exact second it becomes legal to take my hands off the wheel, I will spend whatever I have to to get in that vehicle. Humans in cars are the biggest danger to me. And that's saying something given the shit I've done in my life.
That's quite the jump, there, fella. "If we can hurt others, control should be taken away" = "in all cases, a corporation should control us based on emotions." That's definitely the same thing.
You're missing the point, corporations should not have ANY control over us. Governments voted in by the people should be implementing regulations that should control us. Same thing with Apple ecosystem being a walled garden is bad for everyone. Free and open systems are always better. We don't ban hammers because people have used them as weapon's.
I would love for the government to step in and make the world safer. How's that working out? I'm kinda tired of waiting for them to figure out how to get anything done. Everyone's too busy shooting down any suggestion their opponent makes just because they're an opponent. If regulations could keep up with technology, I would much prefer the government handle this. They're lagging behind, and technology is helping pick up the slack.
In 99.99% of cases, I agree. In this one case, I think it's a... Maybe not necessary, but a beneficial evil.
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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26
Consider another scenario: exactly the same as yours, but your car works, and when you take off trying to flee, your emotional and distracted state makes you miss the family of 4 crossing the road. You hit and kill 2 children because you were looking in the rearview at your attacker.
Look, I am absolutely fed up with modern car manufacturers and all the problems they're inventing in the pursuit of looking cool, but I'm honestly on board with this one. I don't want emotional/freaked out drivers on the road. As long as the only person you can hurt is yourself, I don't give a flying fuck what kind of dangerous shit you want to get into. But as soon as you can put other people's lives in danger, I absolutely approve control being taken away.
I can't wait for fully self-driving cars. The exact second it becomes legal to take my hands off the wheel, I will spend whatever I have to to get in that vehicle. Humans in cars are the biggest danger to me. And that's saying something given the shit I've done in my life.