I founded ClariNet, the world's first internet based business, am Chairman Emeritus of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a fellow of the Foresight Institute. My current passion is self-driving vehicles and robots.
In San Francisco, city officials, in particular the Fire Chief, have been on an active campaign against the pilot deployment of robotaxis in their city. Ironically, this campaign, if successful, will end up resulting in vastly more delays and problems for future emergency vehicles than any delays happening today, as
Robotaxi deployment is just at the beginning, and while much commentary has focused on early problems with these pilot deployments, these comments have often forgotten that this is a nascent, improving technology that will get much better in the future—better in safety, better in road citizenship, better in service.
Today, all new fire trucks come equipped with digital transmitters which alert cars of their approach, like a radio siren. Not all San Francisco vehicles are so equipped, but they will be with time. That’s useful, but is only the start of what can be done. We’re better, at least unconsciously, with risk. We understand and approve the idea that some risks are acceptable, particularly if they offer great reward. Almost all of us speed, putting ourselves and everybody else on the road into a modest amount of mortal risk, just so we can get to a party one minute earlier.
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