{"id":187,"date":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/matt-self-driving\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","slug":"matt-self-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/matt-self-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Self-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/02\/opinion\/self-driving-cars.html\">Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles<\/a>. But I was really taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2025\/11\/27\/self-driving-cars-will-transform-urban-economies\">The Economist\u2019s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies<\/a>. It\u2019s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order effects of self-driving.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>America is home to 1m taxi and bus drivers, as well as over 3m truck drivers\u2014adding up to 3% of the working population. Other potential losers are less obvious. Without car accidents there will, for instance, be less demand for personal-injury lawyers. If people stop buying cars, dealers and used-car salesmen will go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It\u2019s fascinating to think a few chess moves down the line, for example, fewer personal-injury lawyers funding politicians might lead to some form of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tort_reform\" target=\"_blank\">Tort Reform<\/a>, an area of society that, like gun control, has centrist changes most Americans would agree with, but has been captured by special intere<\/span>sts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist\u2019s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It\u2019s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}