{"id":150768,"date":"2025-12-06T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/?p=150768"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:54:14","slug":"self-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/12\/self-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/a>. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies<\/a>. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order effects of self-driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\n\n\n

It’s fascinating to think a few chess moves down the line, for example, fewer personal-injury lawyers funding politicians might lead to some form of\u00a0Tort 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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order … Continue reading Self-driving<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":54207,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWEudHRcL2ZpbGVzXC8yMDIxXC8wNVwvUGhvdG8tb24tMjAyMC0xMC0yOC1hdC0yLjA1LVBNLTEtMTAyNHg2ODIuanBnIiwidHh0IjoiU2VsZi1kcml2aW5nIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJmdWxsc2NyZWVuIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjEwNDc4NjV9.kh_nvHBRbe29sKit1V3t4AtzDVoK-m43KE6aivme4t8MQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-2"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/12\/self-driving\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Self-driving","url":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/12\/self-driving\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/12\/self-driving\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Tech","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt"}],"creator":["Matt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Mullenweg","logo":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/files\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2025-12-06T23:54:14Z","datePublished":"2025-12-06T23:54:14Z","dateModified":"2025-12-06T23:54:14Z"},"rendered":"