Image transcript:

White background meme with the text “People want to build a massive connected network of driverless cars to ‘solve’ traffic. Doesn’t that sound a bit like giving SkyNet control of all the nukes?”

There are illustrative images of the proposed “network of driverless cars” as well as a menacing image of a terminator robot and an image from a news report about a deadly crash caused by a self-driving Uber.

  • Deme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Skynet theories aside, the whole “AI will solve trafic” thing is just dumb. Sure, I suppose we could one day perfect a system of cars working as a hivemind to optimize the flow of trafic, but that just makes it impossible for anyone not part in that hivemind (cyclists etc.) to use the road.

    I suppose the “just one more lane bro” joke sort of applies here in that the problem caused by cars would be “solved” by doubling down on cars.