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Losing even one in 10 customers would substantially reduce airlines' revenue. They don't make much money on each flight as it is; less income would likely cause them to shrink their service, flying fewer routes less frequently.
The problem wouldn't just be customers who chose not to fly. Some passengers might split trips between self-driving cars and airplanes, which would further reduce airlines' revenue. For instance, a person in Savannah, Georgia, who wants to go to London could choose to change planes in Atlanta—or take a self-driving car to the Atlanta airport, and skip the layover.
These changes could substantially change the aviation industry, with airlines ordering fewer airplanes from manufacturers, airports seeing fewer daily flights and lower revenue from parking lots, and even airport hotels hosting fewer guests. The future of driverless cars is appealing to consumers—which means the future of commercial flight is in danger.
A personal fondling session from a TSA agent named Brad, or 5 hours in your self-driving Mazda that your four-year old smeared peanut butter in?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 12 2019, @03:00AM (4 children)
From an evolutionary perspective it's better for the species in the long term if most of us die mostly/partly because of our own gene related issues (bad coordination, poor reflexes, falling asleep while driving, low toughness, poor clotting factor) than something mostly not controlled by our genes other than "chose or even forced to get in a self driving car".
So self-driving cars, elevators and airliners have to be really safe, while it's fine for people to participate in dangerous sports or hobbies.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday June 12 2019, @03:43AM (2 children)
Maybe, but this assumes that we don't entirely veer away from natural reproduction. If we use gene editing, synthetic embyros, artificial wombs, etc. we will have unprecedented control over the evolutionary direction of the species. Even with what we have today, we are balancing our ability to keep weaker individuals alive with our ability to screen them out [soylentnews.org].
If shit hits the fan™, we may not reach that level of technology, but we could have a quick culling of billions of humans, leaving a fraction of a subset of well-prepared and crafty individuals. If the goal is to keep humanity from being completely extinguished, we will probably be OK since we have billions of humans. Many "strong" people will die if nukes are being launched all over the globe, but some would make it and dominate the next phase.
If we don't get a SHTF™ event, we will enter into a new era of biotechnology that overturns a lot of ideas. No more natural selection, no more natural anything unless you're a contrarian.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 12 2019, @08:55AM (1 child)
FTFY, no strong warranties exists.
Besides, even if it happens, I have reasons to believe you won't like the ... ummm... dominants, very likely they'll rely on brute force more than the intellect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 12 2019, @09:24AM
It would be a mix. Methodical preparation, organization, resource management, etc. aren't "brutal" traits. But they can be applied in brutal ways.
Also, I'm not tryna flex. I'd probably die during week 1.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:23AM
When we started providing significant species (and even tribe) specific advantages to our offspring after our age of fertility (thinking: Grandmothers...), that started skewing up the whole evolution by death of the stupid. Now, we can have stupid children, but as long as some of them grow up to be able to protect some children long enough to breed, that's O.K.
Diversity is where it's at. There's not one best genotype for species survival - having a variety working cooperatively has given h. sapiens lots of advantages.
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