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https://gizmodo.com/uber-and-lyft-have-a-hot-new-idea-for-screwing-over-cit-1822661060
The arrival of autonomous vehicles is an inevitability, so it makes sense that before mass adoption hits, companies like Lyft and Uber would want to band together to determine what our self-driving future will look like. Sounds pretty harmless, right?
Well, not so fast, because a new pledge by 15 big-name transportation companies seems designed to screw over city-dwellers who want to ride in their own self-driving cars. Item #10 of the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities, co-signed yesterday by Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Didi Chuxing (China's largest ride-sharing service), reads as follows:
10. WE SUPPORT THAT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (AVS) IN DENSE URBAN AREAS SHOULD BE OPERATED ONLY IN SHARED FLEETS.
Due to the transformational potential of autonomous vehicle technology, it is critical that all AVs are part of shared fleets, well-regulated, and zero emission. Shared fleets can provide more affordable access to all, maximize public safety and emissions benefits, ensure that maintenance and software upgrades are managed by professionals, and actualize the promise of reductions in vehicles, parking, and congestion, in line with broader policy trends to reduce the use of personal cars in dense urban areas.
Translation: These companies want to make it illegal for individuals to use privately owned self-driving cars in big cities, effectively giving the signatories control of our autonomous streets.
See the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities site for details on their principles, which are enumerated here:
- We plan our cities and their mobility together.
- We prioritize people over vehicles.
- We support the shared and efficient use of vehicles, lanes, curbs, and land.
- We engage with stakeholders.
- We promote equity.
- We lead the transition towards a zero-emission future and renewable energy.
- We support fair user fees across all modes.
- We aim for public benefits via open data.
- We work towards integration and seamless connectivity.
- We support that autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 05 2018, @01:09AM
Do you remember, on Halloween we had a horrific terror attack in NYC. An ISIS guy, Saipov, he rents a truck from Home Depot, right? And drives it down a bicycle path. It was a bloodbath, the worst terror attack in NYC. Since 911. So many killed! And people say, oh, he hates America. I'm sure he does. But he hates the bicycle people most of all. A lot of us do. Because they get in our way. They don't follow the rules. And they're very rude.
Let me tell you, a few days before that attack, I was attacked by a bicycle person. I was leaving the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. And my motorcade passes this bicycle woman. But we came to a red light, she catches up with us. And she gave me the finger! All we did was pass her, very carefully, and she gave me the finger. Incredible!