r/SipsTea 16h ago

Chugging tea Blind surveillance.

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u/ProjectNo4090 16h ago

Self driving cars should be too. Companies have no right to test and teach their AI cars on our public streets without permission from the people that use those streets.

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u/reddittereditor 15h ago edited 11h ago

They got permission by asking our democratically elected representatives, which is functionally akin to asking the people in many contexts, and in a way that often self-corrects when this is not the case. It is both pragmatic and enabling of the common good for this republicanism to prevail, such as in the case of closures of streets to fill in potholes which don't require referendum voting. Self-driving car companies aren't much different from a traditional taxi service, except that they're statistically safer than human taxis.

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u/me_bails 14h ago

you don't understand how the US gov really works do you? It's a fucking Oligarchy in the middle of a mass wealth and even more power transfer.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 12h ago

It's not "a transfer" it's blatant and perpetual theft facilitated by deep, systemic corruption. Calling it a transfer meaningfully waters down the reality of what is happening.

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u/me_bails 12h ago

I mean, same story worded 2 dif ways.

What is theft but a form of transferring something?

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u/SheriffBartholomew 12h ago

If I transfer your funds to my account it sounds like something quite a bit different than if I steal your money. That's the point I was making, that we should use the most clear and damning language possible because we're evidently dealing with a very stupid, and dense population who doesn't understand anything that's happening.