1. Notes: 42 / 9 months ago  from theatlantic

   theatlantic:

   Wacky Florida Political Ad Warns of Robot Car Menace

   Forget gators, zombies, and escaped pet pythons. The new menace in Florida, if this ad is to be believed, is the driverless cars that terrorize the streets, mowing down slow-moving pedestrians and smashing into things.

   The spot is a last-minute attack on Jeff Brandes, a state representative from St. Petersburg running for an open state senate seat in today’s Republican primary. Brandes sponsored Google-backed legislation this year that made Florida the second state in the country to allow driverless cars on its roads. He never imagined it would become a political issue.

   I, for one, welcome our new robo-car overlords.

   We live in the comic-book future. Unfortunately, it looks a lot like Transmet and Futurama.

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      Lmao this ad is ridiculous.

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      I really need to start a weird Florida news tumblr. But so much to aggregate, so little time. Argghhh…

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      For a bit of a LOL

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       I love the voice over. “A toll bridge.”

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       MORE DANGEROUS THAN DRIVING.

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       Google-backed legislation? This looks a great discussion about the 5 key questions in teaching Media Literacy.

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       Wow - I’m glad this race isn’t in Penn. Oh those wacky old people and their fear of technology.

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       Ha már technológiai fejlődéssel járó dilemmák, pont egy hónapja ment a témázás az intelligens autók döntési...

   32. michaelk42 reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

       We live in the comic-book future. Unfortunately, it looks a lot like Transmet and Futurama.

   33. superxtine reblogged this from theatlantic and added:

       this ad is about old people who are scared of technology. just tell them GOD is driving the car and they’ll be fine with...

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       UGH SERIOUSLY THE REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE ADS THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN FUCKING VICIOUS.

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