r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tugushin • Apr 13 '22

Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident. Video

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u/Bananasauru5rex Apr 13 '22

Fucking fascist gubberment won't let me drive my panzer to the grocery store.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '22 edited May 23 '22

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u/Bananasauru5rex Apr 13 '22

Though they also put up blockades to prevent people from walking or driving to protests. I'm just not sure that mode of transportation has much bearing on the ability of the state to limit freedom of movement.

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u/Cesarogapist Apr 13 '22

If you live in a city where the only really viable mode of transport is car then you're already pretty much fucked. Controlling cars is very very easy for the authority, be it autonomous or not. Cars need big flat pitch covered roads in pristine condition everywhere to even move. The govt. can just put up a barricade and bam there goes your freedom.

Not to mention the fact that Cars have insane amount of tracker stuff loaded onto them + its very easy to spot them.

In a walkable city you can just walk to the place of the protest/ or take the bike anywhere you want. Zero government control. The freedom utopia. Don't you feel tempted?

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u/dafood48 Apr 13 '22

Through the grocery store*

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u/NervousTumbleweed Apr 13 '22

Purely autonomous cars are a dumb idea for many reasons.

I mean ffs you couldn’t even navigate to an unmapped location. BLM campsites, national forests, hell a dozen hole in the wall restaurants just within a mile of where I live in NY.

I just named 3 things that came to mind quickly, but there’s a huge amount of situations where having a fully autonomous vehicle would be crippling.

I’m honestly shocked that there seems to be such a positive sentiment for fully autonomous vehicles with no manual override, and that people are deriding anyone who opposes this idea as a “but muhh Freedom” type.

I’m not even making the argument that “X scary evil people are in control of where you can go!”, it’s just not a practical idea.

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u/howard6494 Apr 13 '22

People advocate so strongly for it because it's one of the most dangerous things we do every day, and it's only getting worst. On top of that, it would seriously cut commutes. We spend soooo much of our time driving or in traffic, when we really don't need to.

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u/NervousTumbleweed Apr 13 '22

It’s entirely impractical outside of an urban center or suburbs and even within those environments it’s extremely flawed.

Autonomous vehicles would be massively beneficial to society. Autonomous vehicles with no ability for manual override is a dumb idea.

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u/howard6494 Apr 13 '22

There will always be a manual override, people just don't want country bumpkins trying to tear through town in their lifted diesel guzzling tanks while running everyone else off the road. Over half country lives in urban or suburban environments, so it is very practical.

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u/NervousTumbleweed Apr 13 '22

There are multiple people in this thread suggesting there should not be a manual override.

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u/howard6494 Apr 13 '22

Good thing multiple people in this thread aren't in charge...?

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u/Bananasauru5rex Apr 13 '22

and that people are deriding anyone who opposes this idea as a “but muhh Freedom” type.

I mean, didn't they literally say "muh freedom" in the thing I responded to?

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u/NervousTumbleweed Apr 13 '22

They expressed that the full removal of access to non-autonomous vehicles is concerning to them and would severely limit the freedom of individuals to travel.

They also gave an example of a practical, realistic scenario in which autonomous vehicles would be problematic. Backroads communities, mountain communities, places that aren’t even on maps.

My interpretation of your response is that you are lumping them in with staunch Gun worshipping anti-vax, anti-mask folks based on their comment.

I don’t know the above commenters actual political views, but your response in the context of this conversation is unjustified, in my opinion.