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I'm watching the show "Upload". I'm five episodes in and so far two people have already been killed by self-driving cars. Is this really the future everyone is looking forward to?
No, it's the future corporations are looking forward to: "You'll own nothing and be happy."
The entire point of self-driving cars was to remove the hassle of selling directly to consumers and instead sell fleets to other corporations, intended for them to be constantly circling cities looking for people who need rides. Think Taxis but a million times worse and more congestion because it means every car that exists will always be somewhere on the road.
Corporations have increasingly looked away from direct-to-consumer business because consumers are fickle and have less money than corporate coffers. American corporations have slowly become one big mess of just buying and selling to one another and leaving out the average consumer, instead only "renting" or "licensing" products to consumers.
They don't care if human lives are lost in the process as long as they can crow about how much "safer" it is to trust the "perfect" machines unlike "imperfect" humans. All they really want is to be able to sell the same car, over and over again. They want the benefits of repossession without the hassle. They want a permanent income stream via their vehicles.