I'm not really replying to the article, just going tangentially from the "dead internet theory" topic, but I was thinking about when we might see the equivalent for roads: the dead road theory.

In X amount of time a significant majority of road traffic will be bots in the drivers seat (figuratively), and a majority of said traffic won't even have a human on-board. It will be deliveries of goods and food.

I look forward to the various security mechanisms required of this new paradigm (in the way that someone looks forward to the tightening spiral into dystopia).

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WD-42 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not a dystopia for me. I’m a cyclist that’s been hit by 3 cars. I believe we will look back at the time when we allowed emotional and easily distracted meat bags behind the wheels of fast moving multiple ton kinetic weapons for what it is: barbarism.

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bigstrat2003 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That is not really a defensible position. Most drivers don't ever hit someone with their car. There is nothing "barbaric" about the system we have with cars. Imperfect, sure. But not barbaric.

	▲	lmm 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Most drivers don't ever hit someone with their car. There is nothing "barbaric" about the system we have with cars. Imperfect, sure. But not barbaric. Drivers are literally the biggest cause of deaths of young people. We should start applying the same safety standards we do to every other part of life.
	▲	weregiraffe 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>Most drivers don't ever hit someone with their car. Accidents Georg, who lives in a windowless car ans hits someone over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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throwaway132448 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You should spend some more time driving in the environments you cycle in. This will make you better at anticipating the situations that lead to you getting hit.

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disqard 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might like David Mason's short story "Road Stop":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61309

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TacticalCoder 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> In x amount of time a significant majority of road traffic will be bots in the drivers seat (figuratively), and a majority of said traffic won't even have a human on-board. It will be deliveries of goods and food.

Nah. That's assuming most cars today, with literal, not figurative, humans are delivering goods and food. But they're not: most cars during traffic hours and by very very very far are just delivering groceries-less people from point A to point B. In the morning: delivering human (usually by said human) to work. Delivering human to school. Delivering human back to home. Delivering human back from school.

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Morromist 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean maybe someday we'll have the technlogy to work from home too. Clearly we aren't there yet according to the bosses who make us commute. One can dream... one can dream.

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BLKNSLVR 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Anecdote-only

I actually prefer to work in the office, it's easier for me to have separate physical spaces to represent the separate roles in my life and thus conduct those roles. It's extra effort for me to apply role X where I would normally be applying role Y.

Having said that, some of the most productive developers I work with I barely see in the office. It works for them to not have to go through that whole ... ceremoniality ... required of coming into the office. They would quit on the spot if they were forced to come back into the office even only twice a week, and the company would be so much worse off without them. By not forcing them to come into the office, they come in on their own volition and therefore do not resent it and therefore do not (or are slower to) resent their company of employment.

	▲	RajT88 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I really liked working in the office when it had lots of people I directly worked with, and was next to lots of good restaurants and a nice gym. You got to know people well and stuff could get done just by wandering over to someone's desk (as long as you were not too pesky too often).

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BobBagwill 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Last of the Winnebagos by Connie Willis