• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I’d really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I’m losing hope.

    I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn’t be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.

    I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it’s shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we’re in is just part of a larger cycle.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Flying taxis won’t happen, way too many risks, even in the future, never mind the horrors of having your skies full of that crap.

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        23 hours ago

        We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3…

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          18 hours ago

          To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.

          Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.

          If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.

          Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.

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            23 hours ago

            Obviously I know how they work, I saw it in a documentary about Airplanes. The Otto pilot inflates at the press of a button (or is inflated manually) and they fly the plane.