• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Job #1 for self driving vehicles should be don’t hit anything. Self driving should be able to have better senses, 100% attention, and better reflexes than human drivers. Until the vehicles can operate without hitting things they should never be allowed on public roads.

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      1 year ago

      Until the vehicles can operate without hitting things at a better rate than human drivers they should never be allowed on public roads.

      Humans are atrocious drivers, once that mark is reached it’s a massive improvement with only upward trajectory from there

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        1 year ago

        They too often are, but it somehow seems more accepted for a careless human to hurt someone than a machine to hurt someone.

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      1 year ago

      You just articulated the “100% or nothing” standard, which totally ignores how unsafe human drivers are. Let’s say humans score an 80% on safety today (after all hundreds of thousands are killed on the roads annually). You’re saying that a technology that’s only 92% safe should not be permitted. Nope. We need that last 8% to be there and we’ll withhold the 12% improvement from the public until it is - even though that has a cost of thousands of lives.

      This is a way to get nowhere and kill as many people as possible.

      • dan1101@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I didn’t say 100% but they are not ready to be on public roads when they hit parked fire trucks. Huge objects on the road.