From what I’ve seen the driving culture in China does seem to be a lot more relaxed than in western countries. I’ve seen lots of videos of people driving scooters on sidewalks and so on. The legal responsibility is a good question, I would assume the company making the scooter would be responsible since they’re making the self driving system for it.

If this tech works well I can see it making things incredibly convenient. You could just leave your scooter somewhere, and then have it come find you, or you could even share a scooter with a friend this way.

I very much agree, the platforms have to be qualitatively different in nature to make it worth moving.

coming full circle given that German nazis used US as their model

lol

The anxiety over job loss actually seems like one of the main reasons. Another big reason seems to be that people are feeling threatened by machines doing things that were thought to be inherently human, which means there’s nothing magical about human cognition.

I would totally watch this.