In carpray sano
Self driving car laws and our bodies as work horses.
we hope everyone’s seen the General motors acquired electric car company bloze-cruise had a little incident caught on Americans funniest smartphone pedestrian videos:
https://www.slashgear.com/830134/the-internet-cant-believe-cops-pulled-over-a-driverless-car/
To us the lay viewer, it’s a funny video where unprepared traffic-ticket bois in blue, try to pull over a car that they find empty, only to seemingly speed away in defiance against the law. “Cars aren’t people (yet), you can’t arrest me!” - outtake from cars7themotionpicture
But we now know, as GM reputational patchers inform the media: it was merely crossing the street to pull over at a safer location / blocking less traffic - the automation did exactly what it was intended to do: pull over for sirens, and move out of the route of primary traffic.
OR IS THAT WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK?!
- is what the cops who did the pulling over and are the butt of many a soon momento’d internet joke, but also as everyone in the world is conditioned to be now “wow, look that’s me on TV, ma!” think
No, but seriously, the car did exactly what it was designed to, in accordance with what it’s designers and programmers decided with the aid of regulatory authorities oversight, would be a wise safety measure.
So how come the cops were faked by the juke?
They’re ill informed. Not equipped to deal with the myriad of enforcement issues out there on the road of life.
Sure some cops might have specialties is xyz, and it might be a great specialty and service for being a hand of justice and peace keeping…
But the vast majority just need a job, want an “honest job”, enjoy authority positions (or have extreme psychosis around authority, so feel the need to be “I am the law” people)…. Also like wearing uniforms…
Nazis looked kinda cool retro vibey if you think about it from the purely aesthetic point…
A lot of people were and are confused about what Death in June is all about.
The absurdities of authorities on high proclaiming, demanding, enslaving, a people force fed false patriotisms…
But what does this have to do with driverless car law and how we’ve gotten very used to replacing our horse enslaving powers with mechanical and global manufacturing and supply chain “efficiencies”, to remove humans need for as many workhorses. (“how many horseys you got in that puppy” - very strange sentence that makes perfect sense uttered by a car head to another car head)
Work: energy mass something equations physics.
Or is it defined as something more.
Let’s take a cop out and copy paste some etymology lesson:
work (n.)
Old English weorc, worc "something done, discrete act performed by someone, action (whether voluntary or required), proceeding, business; that which is made or manufactured, products of labor," also "physical labor, toil; skilled trade, craft, or occupation; opportunity of expending labor in some useful or remunerative way;" also "military fortification," from Proto-Germanic *werka- "work" (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch werk, Old Norse verk, Middle Dutch warc, Old High German werah, German Werk, Gothic gawaurki), from PIE *werg-o-, suffixed form of root *werg- "to do."
Meaning "physical effort, exertion" is from c. 1200; meaning "scholarly labor" or its productions is from c. 1200; meaning "artistic labor" or its productions is from c. 1200. Meaning "labor as a measurable commodity" is from c. 1300. Meaning "embroidery, stitchery, needlepoint" is from late 14c.
Work of art attested by 1774 as "artistic creation," earlier (1728) "artifice, production of humans (as opposed to nature)." Work ethic recorded from 1959. To be out of work "unemployed" is from 1590s. To make clean work of is from c. 1300; to make short work of is from 1640s.
Proverbial expression many hands make light work is from c. 1300. To have (one's) work cut out for one is from 1610s; to have it prepared and prescribed, hence, to have all one can handle. Work in progress is from 1930 in a general sense, earlier as a specific term in accountancy and parliamentary procedure.
Work is less boring than amusing oneself. [Baudelaire, "Mon Coeur mis a nu," 1862]
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. [attributed to Mark Twain]
work (v.)
a fusion of Old English wyrcan (past tense worhte, past participle geworht) "prepare, perform, do, make, construct, produce; strive after" (from Proto-Germanic *wurkjanan); and Old English wircan (Mercian) "to operate, function, set in motion," a secondary verb formed relatively late from Proto-Germanic noun *werkan(see work (n.)).
Sense of "perform physical labor" was in Old English, as was sense "ply one's trade" and "exert creative power, be a creator." Transitive sense "manipulate (physical substances) into a desired state or form" was in Old English. Meaning "have the expected or desired effect" is from late 14c. In Middle English also "perform sexually" (mid-13c.). Related: Worked (15c.); wrought; working.
To work in "insert, introduce or intermix," as one material with another, is by 1670s; hence the figurative sense "cause to enter or penetrate by repeated efforts." To work up (transitive) "bring into some state or condition" is by 1590s of material things, 1690s of immaterial things; hence "bring by labor or special effort to a higher state or condition" (1660s). The meaning "excite, stir up, raise, rouse" is from c. 1600. To work over "beat up, thrash" is from 1927. To work against "attempt to subvert" is from late 14c.
To work out "bring about or procure (a result) by continued labor or effort" is by 1530s. As "bring to a fuller or finished state, elaborate, develop," by 1821. Meaning "to solve, calculate the solution to" a problem or question is by 1848. Intransitive sense "make its way out" is from c. 1600; the sense of "succeed" is attested by 1909. Sense of "exhaust (a mine, etc.) by working it" is from 1540s. The pugilistic sense of "box for practice (rather than in a contest) is by 1927, hence the general sense of "practice, rehearse" (1929) and that of "take exercise" (by 1948).
In essence: work is existing: doing - out autonomous nervous system, is automated by our brains to keep us breathing.
Work ethic: a belief that hard work and making and doing things of value is to be valued above most else.
Some people don’t work so well.
Their output is less than their input. Some things are designed to work this way… a fruit juice press for example… you could have just eaten the fruit but instead bit of it go to waste in the squeeze.
but not people. Peoples output should be greater than their given input. After all: we have brains and can produce all sorts of work beyond just “manual labor”… right?
But what is there beyond labour - results, good ideas ready to be implemented with a bit more work, novels, artwork, education, physical goods life food and cups of wine and cultivated life.
It’s a lot of work to raise another worker, but raising other workers up, is perhaps the most noble form of work for the mere fact that it’s a multiplier rather than an additive effect.
One teachers work efforts to educate or expose other working students to new knowledge, can give their “working” bodies and minds the potential to multiply and apply those esoteric (or mundane and simply logical of its like HR-101 classes, or… Stat-404) teachings.
It’s apparent that apes the behaviors necessary to raise another good worker child.
Rucker’s Manchile was the result of a bopper hybrid… who’s to say we won’t turn people into cars (likely for some antiquated workers “safety”/regulatory belief - “if there’s no person, who does cop man arrest, there must be person accountable law”)…
These funny legal efforts of governments are really whack-a-mole games against better, smarter workers that output much more horse power… plow entire fields of mines and economies, with just a little capital injected in the right places, and a little savvy for timing and decorums.
Jungle named companies, want to destabilize a version of “civilization”, so they can replace it with drone conveniences and get away from paying imperfect meatsuit workers, with “perfect” autonomous systems.
Truckers rebel, because they know their industry is on deaths door. How many ice road truckers will we need with mag lev autonomous container transport convoys powered by the sun and wind, scheduled and orchestrated by a centralized system overseeing supply and demand curves and goods pricing.
Autonomous cops- experiments in that area are quite distopian - I totally recommend reading up on some of the UAE “police robot” incidents.
A car performs work, taking the labour and effort of moving stuff from ground point a to ground point b, easy work, a kid driven to school by their parent on the way to their parking lot of work, rather than the 20 mile trek in snowshoes our ancestors took alone to get their schooling.
Specialized work systems rarely are well understood except by the designers, or someone with a high level overview, with descriptions akin to magic;
“The can knew you drive to safe place” - is a really oversimplification for the dozens of sensors and ML models and decision trees built into the computer driving the cruise mobile.
I don’t know how to end this post. It’s time for us to do our good work, and add value to the world.
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