@VicVijayakumar Agreed, I'd be concerned about safety. Even if FSD is good, everyone else in the road is still a human driver. Looking at the stats, driving Raleigh to Omaha is ~360x more dangerous than flying. Even if FSD reduces risk by 90%, that's still 36x more dangerous.
@ben_j_todd On a personal level, stop digital nomading. Buy a house to take on fixed long term debt. Lock in and work, leveraging AI. Invest in the stock market. Some light stockpiling of masks, food, and water. Stay healthy.
@luke_pighetti @zacharierahman @grok You pay regular income tax on it, but not self employment tax. Also the salary would have to be higher! I recommend the book “Taxpayer’s Comprehensive Guide to LLCs and S Corps” if you’re seriously considering it…although I guess just asking AI works just as well in 2026 haha.
@WorksInProgMag 1.2 million traffic deaths / yr x 80% reduction via self-driving cars = ~950k deaths annually prevented. If a congestion tax delays mass adoption by just 3 months on average, that would be ~240k lives lost vs the counterfactual of delaying taxes until congestion is a real problem
@bswud@keltz_ I'll give it a shot! 1.2 million traffic deaths / yr x 80% reduction via self-driving cars = ~950k deaths annually prevented. If a congestion tax delays mass adoption by just 3 months, that would be ~240k lives lost vs counterfactual: delaying taxes until congestion is a problem.
@bswud Adding a tax now could slow the rollout of self-driving cars, which would lead to unnecessary deaths that could have been prevented. Also the problem is theoretical now, can always add a tax later if this becomes a real problem, like the city fees added onto Uber / Lyft.
@rohindhar@grok please estimate the dollars “removed” from the local economy from transitioning to Waymo vs the dollars “saved” from preventing 90% of local traffic deaths