The stark message prompting the remaining residents to flip a light switch, and the title of the article slightly amended describe the peril faced by residents in the hinterland of Boeing country during an economic downturn in 1971, resonated with at least the Baby Boomer generation providing a terse warning to citizens that the invasion of fickle was on the near horizon and a 747 jumbo jet away.
The 70’s decade was fortunately forgettable and maybe ultimately salvageable within the conversation of historical scholars thanks to a majority of moderate politicians on both sides of the aisle that would not dare to wear rhinestone infused designer blue jeans and pink shirts as jury in a murder trial involving the tragic death of three children at the hands of a monster. Feeble economic conditions surrounding the disco movement five decades ago aside, the voracious predators of self-driving vehicles are teaming up with nocturnal gangs in today’s world to facilitate another overexaggerated mass exodus and a finality of who will actually turn out the lights in the wake of public safety being compromised by big tech. The new age fuel crises involves and insatiable lust for energy that cannot be quantified at the pump.
As digital automation insatiably absorbs the essence of humanity, fate is left in the brains and the electronic synapses of the callous neural net incapable of crossing the threshold of the abstract as custodians to the electronic grid, where logistics, including transportation and the supply chain are hackable by a band of Albanian thieves, not to mention millions of applications that constitute everyday life. While self-driving vehicles are at the forefront of an impending crises thanks to software vulnerabilities, the viral mechanism of apparent ingenuity is a relatable enigma to the implementation of automation which reaches all corners of “What is…Is”
Reports compiled over the last five years from various sources profile an alarming track record of self-driving vehicle ventures that put the cadre of reckless NASCAR infused drivers in middle America to shame. This is from a perspective as a non-compete clause as to the dangers of automation on the public roadways statistically represent a hazard that rush hour in major metropolitan areas fail to live up to dubious standards of futility. The phrase “once one is locked in, anything can happen” is a fair application of Murphy’s law.
The latest culprit in the endgame for the inept is self-driving transportation consortium Waymo and a trial fleet of glorified internet-controlled cars designed to ferry techies from the office, Trader Joes, and a final destination at a suburban generic brownstone. The corporation owned by the insidious Alphabet, Inc and the progeny of search engine behemoth and personal information extractor Google is only eight years removed from engaging in a fierce and unethical battle with Uber which has also aggressively tested in metro areas attempting to ultimately dominate the rideshare marketplace. During that time period, after a series of preventable accidents by both ventures, Google delved into the morbid venture of harvesting organs from live specimens that may or may not be a product of allowing for a tolerable level of serious collisions in a reprehensible display lacking accountability. Apparently, deaths are just part of the developmental timeline which begs the question, can AI be put on trial for vehicular manslaughter or receive a traffic violation for speeding?
While Uber was severely reprimanded from an experimental front and rightfully so after a multitude of accidents and pedestrian fatalities occurred on public thoroughfares in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey restricted testing to proving grounds only, sparing lives and setting a precedent that big tech will not put the safety if individuals over the development of product. Disturbingly, the dignitaries and lackeys in Silicon Valley seem to adhere to the deplorable philosophy that sacrifice is acceptable for the sake of profit, and this Mayan martyr hierarchy of the trickle-down evolutionary scale includes pets, much to the sallow chagrin of the dog mom neighborhood activist movement.
As anti-driver Liberal politicians continue to press for the widespread automation of vehicles on the streets, residents are left with the decision to face the ire of AI dictating traffic patterns and controlling vehicles or migrating to regions and municipalities where commonsense prevails. However, the with one’s political pocketbook in depopulating areas and of heavy elements of dystopia cannot prevent the inevitable escalation of sentient software to ultimately navigate aircraft, at which point the majority of society is doomed as sentience battles sentience with no winner.
