AI Self-Driving Cars Could Go From Desirable In Locales To Becoming NIMBY

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

[Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/]

NIMBY.

You’ve likely heard or seen the acronym before.

Not In My Backyard (NIMBY).

That’s what some people say when there is something they believe to be untoward that is potentially going to be situated near to them.

Oftentimes, people will indicate they favor something overall, and it is the specific placement that concerns them.

A frequent retort to that involves the suggestion that the person does not want to bear having the aspect near to them but seems willing to have someone else have to deal with the matter.

Is it being two-faced or perhaps hypocritical to indicate that you favor something but not in your own backyard?

That’s the claim that some make against those that say yes to something and yet refuse to have it near to them.

This is not to say that there aren’t some that are indeed perhaps being two-faced at times. It could be that there is not a particularly valid…