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 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.