i love most of solnit's writing including this one but this was the weakest part of this essay — most drivers on the road are awful at driving; they'd happily risk other people's lives to reply to a text. driverless cars are leaps and bounds better than letting humans drive.
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Rebecca Solnit
Wrote about them here. "Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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