While I appreciate the self driving car thing - it’s really only a benefit in a major city than it is elsewhere. Cities like New York and others where there’s extreme population densities would be the best use case for it but even then it’s likely to be unbelievably difficult. There’s a lot of datapoints going on at once and when you think about it, it goes to show you how fucking STRONG our brains are, and how incredibly sophisticated it is! It’s taking in those thousands of datapoints a second and keeping us relatively safe.

On the same token - I wish I wasn’t so pessimistic about the powers that shouldn’t be using this tech in nefarious ways. We know they want to control us, and this is one more step for them.

I think where we could benefit is making software for this fully open source and that will take time, but that would be my best hope for this being a good thing.