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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by hashkb on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:37PM (#11492436)
Google had fail safes which failed. What if a million cars pull over to the left instead of the right as a failed failsafe? Willing to risk your life?
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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by thisisnotatest on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:44PM (#11493542)
Yes, I'm eager to risk my life on self-driving car failures; it would be a tremendous step up from risking my life on human drivers (including myself!) as I do on a daily basis.

I'm also a biker. In 2013, 4,735 pedestrians and 743 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles. http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm

In the future when self-driving or at least augmented driving is commonplace, I hope that number will be a lot lower.

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