Fuck Cars
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
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Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
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The author mentions getting tired and having to take rest breaks while driving their normal car. I’d argue that if you’re too tired to drive, you’re way too tired to supervise FSD.
I get it, having a stressful and difficult job followed by a long drive home is hella hard. But at least, when you’re driving, you feel tired. You feel the need to pull over and rest, which is objectivelly more safe. In FSD mode, what happens if you fall asleep? Maybe the car will sense it, but what if you’re dozing off doing microsleep with your eyes open? (i’m not sure how common it is, it happens to me sometimes)
At least in a normal car your feet are on the pedals and hands on the wheel if you doze off. In FSD, you have to add the reaction time of a waking human to the time it takes to move your hands and feet to the wheel and pedals, and then you can apply a correction. It’s… geez.
she wouldn't have the need for a self driving car if worked less hours, lived closed to her job and used public transportation to go to work (in case her job couldn't be home office'd).
the thing is that this is essentially a capitalist and american problem.
I will say, cruise control makes driving much less tiring. I can put on something to listen to, change up how I sit, and just zone out with my thumb over the cancel button so I'll immediately slow and have time to slam on the brakes. If my cruise control would also match speed with whoever is in front of me and keep me in the lane, it would be even less tiring
That being said, the only way I'm using Tesla self driving is if I'm hyper alert and ready for my car to decide it wants to do some offroading
I have adaptive cruise in my minivan. I have six eight hour drives I have to make every year right now so the kids can spend time with their mom in another state. The difference making that trip before and after adaptive cruise is frankly unbelievable. In the past I would get home mid afternoon and take a nap. Now I stop at the grocery store, do chores around the house, or whatever else and just get to bed at a normal time.
Not only that, but how effective could she be assessing patients when she's that exhausted?
Wouldn't it just be better... for everyone... to do these assessments via video call, like so many other healthcare professionals do? She's not assessing someone's broken bones.
I understand your larger point but many psychological assessments cannot be conducted virtually, though development in that area continues. Additionally, if assessment for social skills (such as ASD assessments) is the goal, that needs to be done in person.
Of course, I'm making assumptions about the type of assessments she's making. Still, I think there are alternatives to driving a monster truck around the state for these kinds of things. It's not like she's hauling a thousand pounds of paperwork around.
Oh absolutely, I do something very similar and while I do have to travel in a similar way, I certainly could never justify, nor would I want a vehicle like that.
The problem is NOT! capitalism.
Huh?
The problem is capitalism. This dipshit is another symptom.