holy crap

This morning in class we talked about the mechanization of society and how Ray Bradbury predicted the self-driving car in his short story entitled, "The Pedestrian."  We talked about how cars and city designs make it difficult for us to walk anywhere or interact with other people, and how the main character in Bradbury's story must have felt so alone and powerless when he was stopped by the police car-- without a human police officer in it.

Then, just now, I read that last night, for the first time, a person was killed by a self-driving car.  This happened in Phoenix, AZ, where 10 pedestrians were killed by cars just last week.  Read the rest HERE.