Date: February 10th, 2025 4:22 AM
Author: bateful immigrant
traffic is really bad in a lot of places for a variety of reasons (outdated infrastructure, the mystery population explosion, etc) and there winds up being a lot of dead-time on the roads. i looked around on a notorious highway during bumper to bumper rush hour traffic and noticed ~4 drivers around me either on facetime calls or tiktok or something
there's a constant need for stimulation that comes from the digital; attention cycles are attenuated, and blank space in the schedule seems exceptionally long without engaging in activity. lots of us, no doubt, suffer from this, albeit in different modes of expression (i know i do)
it'll be interesting to see what effects autonomous vehicles have on our psyches, in both the individual and the collective instances
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5678333&forum_id=2#48641457)