There are only two levers that can change a congressman's mind: Votes and money.
Unfortunately in US political life votes becoming less and less important. Why care for reelection if the lobby promises sweet positions in the corresponding industry or will pay millions for lectures or for writing book etc. just after two years in the Congress?
There is a simple solution for the driverless car safety problems. Require that engineers, programmers, managers that create it use it to drive with their families in it for a year before it could be put into production.
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For a few temporary small benefits, people are willing to accept enormous potential damage. That is my personal definition of evil.
For me that is definition of sucker.
There are only two levers that can change a congressman's mind: Votes and money.
Unfortunately in US political life votes becoming less and less important. Why care for reelection if the lobby promises sweet positions in the corresponding industry or will pay millions for lectures or for writing book etc. just after two years in the Congress?
There is a simple solution for the driverless car safety problems. Require that engineers, programmers, managers that create it use it to drive with their families in it for a year before it could be put into production.