<story><title>How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinksva</author><text>Now is an opportunity, perhaps first in ~100 years, perhaps last, to recover the streets for unaugmented humans: slow down cars in urban areas, increase qualifications for humans to drive, eventually ban human drivers entirely, leaving only automated vehicles with enough sensors and going slowly enough to reduce auto-related deaths for pedestrians and passengers alike to zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdhopeunique</author><text>If automated vehicles become popular, I predict new crimes will be added in addition to jaywalking.  Cyclists may be restricted and anything else that confuses AI drivers.  If certain intersections or sections of road consistently confuse AI drivers, automakers will lobby for ways to change these roadways.  I suspect calls for AI regulation by people like Elon Musk are really attempts at regulatory capture to make automated vehicles possible and dominated by the first market entrants.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinksva</author><text>Now is an opportunity, perhaps first in ~100 years, perhaps last, to recover the streets for unaugmented humans: slow down cars in urban areas, increase qualifications for humans to drive, eventually ban human drivers entirely, leaving only automated vehicles with enough sensors and going slowly enough to reduce auto-related deaths for pedestrians and passengers alike to zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdrake</author><text>&amp;gt; slow down cars in urban areas&lt;p&gt;This is actually happening. Portland has recently fallen in line with other cities, like Seattle, and lowered thousands of miles of streets from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&amp;#x2F;commuting&amp;#x2F;index.ssf&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;portland_poised_to_drop_speed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&amp;#x2F;commuting&amp;#x2F;index.ssf&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;portla...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>