My (18-year-old) son is now claiming that he'd be much more willing to learn how to drive if he could do it with a "WASD + Mouse" control. I smell an untapped market opportunity.
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The problem is that he has an all-too-realistic understanding of how terrifying cars are. The rest of us just unconsciously suppress that we're never closer to death than when we get into a car. Apparently, he can't.
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Replying to @adambroach
Not just terrifying, also... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… (a bit unrelated, but also a bit related)

Mar 19, 2019 · 2:58 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @adambroach
More related, I calculated (using not quite comparable data, but still probably the right order of magnitude) that the chance of dying on a 737 MAX flight is the same as the chance of dying when driving 320 miles in the US. For that, we grounded the 737 MAX...
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Replying to @davidbaron
I've seen this, and I think it has some good take-aways. I also doubt the US population has much stomach for the kinds of changes that moving away from a car-centric transportation infrastructure would take. I wish there were a path to a solution, but it's really not obvious.
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I think many of the changes Shill proposes would be doable, and would start leading to gradual shifts in preferences and policy. I also think many people in the younger generation want to live in a less car-centric way, but they're prevented from doing so by zoning...
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