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India’s Government Wants to Ban Self-Driving Cars to Save Jobs
« on: August 04, 2017, 03:29:14 pm »
India’s Government Wants to Ban Self-Driving Cars to Save Jobs
By Neal - August 2, 2017
https://www.singularityarchive.com/indias-government-wants-ban-self-driving-cars-save-jobs/


Otto's self-driving truck - Courtesy Steve Jurvetson

“We won’t allow driverless cars in India,” said India’s minister of transport, Nitin Gadkari. “I am very clear on this. We won’t allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can’t have a technology that ends up taking people’s jobs.”

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Re: India’s Government Wants to Ban Self-Driving Cars to Save Jobs
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2017, 03:55:12 pm »
I still say, leveraging your infrastructure on self-driving vehicles is a bad idea, because of the security concerns about being hacked.


And believe me,  self-driving vehicles will be hacked.
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Re: India’s Government Wants to Ban Self-Driving Cars to Save Jobs
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2017, 04:21:56 pm »
Well, I do hope that they ban backhoes, that way they can hire a bunch of folks with shovels!  Oh wait, let's ban shovels and hire even more folks to move dirt with spoons!
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