Oh no. I don't like corporations. Corporations are totally intertwined with the government. But business and free markets are far more efficient at safety than bureaucrats behind desks.
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Uber Pulls its Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco Streets
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Adults can't cooperate for mutally beneficial arrangements without the coercion of a ruler forcing them to do so?
This.
Macro economically speaking, Uber is a wealth extraction entity. A company that just a few months ago employed roughly 50 people valued at $40 billion.
Keep an eye on your language and make sure you're not shifting contexts...
Adults can cooperate and create mutually beneficial arrangements all by themselves, but that's not where we're starting from here. You'd made the statement that government regulation never protects anyone. The question then is: "Do they always cooperate for mutual benefit?"
You've also switched from government and bureaucrats to the singular form of "ruler". We're not arguing the pros and con's of autocracy, we're talking about government in all its forms, and starting that discussion from a decision in California.
So while I think adults can and do cooperate, I don't think that's a stable arrangement without some form of social oversight (government). Without that oversight, the benefit goes to the most powerful and least morally inhibited. Differences in power are self reinforcing, so any inequality is amplified over multiple interactions.
There will always be a governing entity and in the absence of a true social contract and regulated oversight, the more powerful become the government. So, without distributed rule you get autocratic rule.
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I have no idea why spell check turned Lyft into Lufthansa...
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And is on track to post a loss of almost $2 billion this year. Valuation these days is pretty meaningless.
I would have thought that if you have no permit, then the driver must be always in full control of the car, and if a driver isn't just caught not in control of their car, but intentionally not in control, then their driving license should be taken away.
The issue isn't that they're not authorized to test autonomous vehicles, the issue is they've got paying passengers in them. It's not as simple as just testing a car with an engineer inside it.
Unfortunately the government is exactly the place where the "most powerful and least morally inhibited" congregate.
Hmmm, put on your virtual VR googles and create a movie of your family being T boned by that car, then reread your silly comment.
It still doesn't change the fact that more money per employee exists in the company than the GDP of entire nations. Wealth concentration to an extreme degree.
You don't understand economics do you. There is no real money. They have generated a negative output. Uber has lost more than $2.8 billion this year.
In this new economy you don't have to actually make a single cent to be considered valuable. You just need to show user growth. As long as you do that people think you're worth investing in. As silly and stupid as it is, people are willing to throw their money into a company that generates negative revenue. Look where it got all of those that have invested in Twitter.