Cars are addictive because if you don’t have a car, and they are not common, you don’t need one. But they are confortable, and this is what hooks people - our Naenderthal brain is wired to save energy and effort. Because cars are, at first, faster than, say, streercars, they are used more and more, and especially people use them for commuting. Because of Marchetti’s constant, people use their daily time budget of about one hour for commuting in a car, and travel longer and longer distances. What results collectively is subururban sprawl, small shops in residential areas, as well as jobs nearby disappear and so on.
Once you are there, it is very difficult to go back, because daily distances are too large for streetcars, bicycles, and buses.
And to add insult to injury, cars stop to be fast once many people use them, since they need enormous amount of longitudinal space to be operated safely. This huge space requirement further accelerates sprawl.
Cars are an collective addiction, highly damaging. This kind of AI might become another.
The tactic has worked for drug dealers for decades
Also for example for the car industry.
Cars are addictive because if you don’t have a car, and they are not common, you don’t need one. But they are confortable, and this is what hooks people - our Naenderthal brain is wired to save energy and effort. Because cars are, at first, faster than, say, streercars, they are used more and more, and especially people use them for commuting. Because of Marchetti’s constant, people use their daily time budget of about one hour for commuting in a car, and travel longer and longer distances. What results collectively is subururban sprawl, small shops in residential areas, as well as jobs nearby disappear and so on.
Once you are there, it is very difficult to go back, because daily distances are too large for streetcars, bicycles, and buses.
And to add insult to injury, cars stop to be fast once many people use them, since they need enormous amount of longitudinal space to be operated safely. This huge space requirement further accelerates sprawl.
Cars are an collective addiction, highly damaging. This kind of AI might become another.