I read an IBM study claiming 69% of CEO’s think disruption is an opportunity. Enabling and investing in exploration of the human brain is likewise worth every CEO’s attention. The most vocal technologists have already envisioned their future and for the rest of us it comes down to this: people should begin to think about changing their behaviors as big tech firms go about disruption. For instance, when promoting autonomous cars they promise safety benefits but marketing is presenting one key sociological benefit: you’re buying the future. That means discarding behaviors and adopting new ones. Structured driving will save lives according to all predictions although no proof exists.
The 2016 National Highway Traffic Safety site (NHTS.gov) stats show intoxicated drivers caused 10,497 deaths and total 2016 highway deaths at 37,461. Such bad behaviors are linked with 19th century car technology. I can find very little about specific U.S. road infrastructure changes at NHTS which may enable autonomous cars to operate more safely than today’s cars. Anyway, technologists say it's about behaviors.
When you think about it, the Titanic rolled out of dry-dock in Belfast and nothing at all changed; the infrastructure was the ocean. When consumer drone ownership took off and then commercially, it was all about sharing the big sky “infrastructure” with the airlines. Now the FAA requires drone registration and a remote pilot certificate due to early-on bad behaviors resulting in privacy and safety regulations. U.S. highway infrastructures are outdated. When autonomous cars finally arrive they will operate like new ships on old oceans. The "ocean problem" demands acknowledging that not every environment is 100% disruptable. Nor is it easy predicting how the environment, our brains and yes, highways, will respond to man's disruptions.
from: The Prophetic Backbone, by R.P.Waters
The 2016 National Highway Traffic Safety site (NHTS.gov) stats show intoxicated drivers caused 10,497 deaths and total 2016 highway deaths at 37,461. Such bad behaviors are linked with 19th century car technology. I can find very little about specific U.S. road infrastructure changes at NHTS which may enable autonomous cars to operate more safely than today’s cars. Anyway, technologists say it's about behaviors.
When you think about it, the Titanic rolled out of dry-dock in Belfast and nothing at all changed; the infrastructure was the ocean. When consumer drone ownership took off and then commercially, it was all about sharing the big sky “infrastructure” with the airlines. Now the FAA requires drone registration and a remote pilot certificate due to early-on bad behaviors resulting in privacy and safety regulations. U.S. highway infrastructures are outdated. When autonomous cars finally arrive they will operate like new ships on old oceans. The "ocean problem" demands acknowledging that not every environment is 100% disruptable. Nor is it easy predicting how the environment, our brains and yes, highways, will respond to man's disruptions.
from: The Prophetic Backbone, by R.P.Waters