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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by oldmanjay on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:27PM (#10747853)
I don't follow why AI vehicles need to be 100% good. Plain old human-driven vehicles sure aren't and we accept their utility as being worth the trade.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by unclebucknasty on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:50PM (#10748946)
Imagine the day an AI vehicle causes an accident that otherwise would not have happened.

Even if AI cars are statistically better than humans on average, it's an issue of control. It's true that most accidents are avoidable and caused by human error, but most people are (perhaps overly) confident in their own ability to drive safely (this is also why people text and drive).

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by dclowd9901 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @11:56PM (#10749636)
We, as the flawed beings we are, can't accept both giving up control and not getting guaranteed safety as a result.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by rolux on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:28PM (#10748210)
In one word: liability.
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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by elliottpayne on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:27AM (#10749945)
In two words: actuarial tables
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