Last Tuesday, Google unveiled a proper self-driving car, with no steering wheel, no brakes, no pedals. Google expects these no-hands-on-wheel cars to hit the roads in 2017 and it is up to us to craft the laws and policies that will govern their use. Such decisions cannot be left for tomorrow. As Google's working prototype reveals, the robocars of the future are here. And because people have a long history of projecting personal freedom and autonomy onto automobiles, they will have an innate understanding of the stakes.
This essay at Wired suggests that we have had a communication problem in convincing mainstream society of the dangers of pervasive surveillance. The author makes a case that the car metaphor made literal is the way American society will finally come to grips with the issue in a visceral, understand-it-in-your-gut way.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 03 2014, @04:29AM
Highly likely the people will start to avoid you after a week or so. Given what you describe (get out of bed and straight into the bathroom/car), chances are you won't have enough time to change the water often enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 03 2014, @06:05AM
What? You mean they are not going to fully automate that and turn it over to robotic equipment too?
Real questions might be things like "will they have internal cameras too?"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 03 2014, @06:13AM
The "Deluxe" models most probably will. However, if you could afford a deluxe, I imagine you wouldn't need to go to the office.
(warning: "double-plus good" wording ahead) Positive, as a standard and mandatory option. Only the deluxe model would come with the optional option to remove have them removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Tuesday June 03 2014, @04:43PM
shouldn't be too difficult to plug in the charger cable and water tubing after coming home every day.