Still, the value of such a video is to show the general public, who are pretty much unaware that driverless vehicles are much closer than they think, that the technology exists and it works. Also the narration explains, in a simplistic way, what the technology actually does. That helps all of us who do not have a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance attitude toward the machines we use.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Reading Rainbow Meets Driverless
LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow, the books-friendly PBS show, appears in a video that offers a bizarre, almost 1970s, view of driverless vehicles, with the assumption that we are going to keep our current auto-centric model of car ownership, land use, and payment models - merely replacing current cars and trucks with driverless ones. Oh, and with barely a mention of transit and other shared-use modes; and an assumption that zero-emission modes are not worth discussing at all.
Still, the value of such a video is to show the general public, who are pretty much unaware that driverless vehicles are much closer than they think, that the technology exists and it works. Also the narration explains, in a simplistic way, what the technology actually does. That helps all of us who do not have a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance attitude toward the machines we use.
Still, the value of such a video is to show the general public, who are pretty much unaware that driverless vehicles are much closer than they think, that the technology exists and it works. Also the narration explains, in a simplistic way, what the technology actually does. That helps all of us who do not have a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance attitude toward the machines we use.
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