Fully self-driving vehicles (AKA Level 5 self-driving vehicles) still seem some way off, but Level 4 vehicles have arrived. Some people might have expected adoption to take off more quickly, but there’s a range of factors slowing things down. People think they are less safe than human drivers. In fact, research indicates the opposite, and every year that goes by will only make that more true. AI will continuously improve; human drivers won’t.

Trucker’s Union’s are opposed. That’s not surprising, and we’ll see stronger opposition like that as robo-cars, robo-buses, and robo-trucks become more common. Driving jobs are one of the last reservoirs of employment opportunities for males without a college education. Globalization has already radically reduced their employment opportunities and income, and AI & robotics are set to be even worse.

This AI BS is wealth concentrating and selling us back our own content and culture. It creates something that is vaguely like the real thing and not entirely awful, but cheaper, because no human had to be paid.

We should just refuse this garbage. And AI in driving has not been great so far. The technology has ‘just been around the corner’ since decades. What we really need is more good public transport, cycleable and walkable cities, and less individual robotic clown cars on the road, no matter if they are slightly less foolish than the human ~~ clowns~~ drivers.

Fuck robot trucks, bring back equines and bovines, there’s some real intelligence for you, plus they turn their fuel waste into fertilizer.