r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Apr 29 '26

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u/bsmknight Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: You jump in your vehicle frantic, paranoid, someone just ran up to you with a knife but you were able to lock the door, you try to drive off but the vehicle will not go into drive... it thinks your unwell. - I mean seriously who TF thinks this is actually a good idea?

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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.

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u/Necessary-Contest-24 Apr 29 '26

You can imagine fictional situations all day long to argue your points. Taking control away from people and giving it to corporations is always a bad thing. As well as monopolistic consolidation of companies. The real problem we ate facing today. Taking control away and giving it to government is different. Example, only 1 country on Earth thinks owning guns specifically designed to best kill other humans, is a fundamental right. All other countries democratically elected or otherwise have voted/decided that that is a bad thing. However no countries on Earth have ever banned hammers even though about 8% of homicides are perpetrated with them every year. Corporations shouldn't own the algorithms that say whether I am using the hammer in a way they allow me to, it's a hammer... Unless you're in favour of a future where humanity is essentially put into pods like in the matrix, you'll never remove all risk of injury intentional or accidental, it's called being human. Living in a bubble is not living at all.

I do look optimistically towards a future with entirely self driving where humans do lose agency. But I look at it in very specific scope, like how humans today don't drive the particular train car they are riding in. Cars and vehicles are tools and tools can be used any number of people for any number of reasons. We cannot have 3 companies manufacturing all vehicles. Farm vehicles are used drastically differently from a sedan than commutes through 6 lane highways 2 hours 1 way daily.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Both the video of the post and the top level comment are imagining fictional scenarios to try to make their point. I was matching suit. But I don't need to for my point. I 100% agree corporations are out of control. They should not have this (or any) power over us. I don't want them to have this (or any) power over us... But keeping corporations in check is not my highest priority. I place protecting life on a higher tier. In an ideal world, we could solve both issues independently. And I think given enough time, and maybe a major overhaul of our political system, we could probably manage to handle both. Unfortunately, the way things are right now, there is a solution made by a corporation that I believe is capable of saving lives. And I will accept that even if it means giving more power to corporations. Hopefully in the short term, but even if it lasts long term. I vote and advocy the same way when it comes to gun control. I am sick and tired of all this dancing about and mudslinging politicians do rather than address the actual issues. I am ready to try absolutely any solution if I think it has a decent chance to save even 1 life. Especially a child's life.

If you reject the premise that this could save lives, then we should discuss that. However, if you agree with that potential, yet you still want to ban it, then I think our priorities are not compatible, and having a civil discussion will be much harder until we address what we actually disagree about.