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Reid Isberg (aka. NorseMN)'s avatar

The real challenge for "auto-driving" cars is that they must be perfect.

Assume there's a city with a million human drivers, and 1000 of them are killed per year in car accidents.

Then replace all the human drivers with automation, an even if the annual deaths are reduced to 100, it will be too many.

As soon as an automated driver kills one person, there will be serious concern. When it gets to 10, there will be an uproar. That's just the way things are. And by "things", I mean people. It doesn't matter whether it's better... (Not saying that it will be. This remains hypothetical.) If it's automated, it must be perfect. Or at least near-perfect. How many people are killed per year in elevator accidents?

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Reid Isberg (aka. NorseMN)'s avatar

That's more like cars driven by evil, demonic people, who are aiming the cars at pedestrians.

OK, I get your point.

But it's apples and oranges. There's no automation controlling the vax. (Unless you believe it contains nanobots.) That's more about mass psychosis causing people to believe falsehoods.

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