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…

  • HedonismB0t@lemmy.ml
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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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.