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It Was Never Supposed To

https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive

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stpedgwdgfhgdd• 3 years ago

The reason our self-driving utopia hasn’t arrived, it argues, is because it was never really supposed to. Instead, the promise of self-driving cars were just a lure to keep cities from building public transit, something America’s scions have been at since the mass production car first spawn an entire new galaxy of industries.

Terr_• 3 years ago

I always assumed it was a bubbly phase that occurred because US demographics, where a bunch of investors were eager to capture the relative wealth concentration of a baby-boomers who would soon become unable to drive themselves.

For some data to play with, the US population "pyramid" graph: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/

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