Safe Streets Rebel’s protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said…

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    1 year ago

    You make it sound like it’s a 50/50 split between human drivers and autonomous vehicles, which is definitely not the case.

    There are way more human drivers than autonomous vehicles. So, when an autonomous vehicle runs your child or pet over or whatever, who do you blame? The company? The programmers? The DMV for even allowing them on the road in the first place?

    What’s an autonomous vehicle do if it gets a flat? Park in the middle of the interstate like an idiot instead of pulling over and phone home for a mechanic?

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      1 year ago

      You need to first ask yourself if it more important to put blame than to minimize risk.

      “Autonomous vehicles could potentially reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90%.”

      “Autonomous vehicle accidents have been recorded at a slightly lower rate compared with conventional cars, at 4.7 accidents per million miles driven.”

      https://blog.gitnux.com/driverless-car-accident-statistics/

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        1 year ago

        That opinion puts a lot of blind faith in the companies developing self driving and their infinitely altruistic motives.

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          1 year ago

          That wasn’t an opinion, it’s a statistic.

          No (large public) company ever has altruistic motives. They aren’t inherently good or bad, just machines driven by profit.

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          What do you mean, I’m sure the industry whose standard practices include having the self-driving function turn itself off nanoseconds before a crash to avoid liability is totally motivated to spend the time and money it would take to fix the problem. After all, we live in a time of such advanced AI that all the news sites and magazines tell me we’re on the verge of the Singularity, and they’ve never misled me before.

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            I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because no on seems to know or give a shit that Tesla was caught red handed doing this. They effectively murdered those drivers.