Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
by pessimizer on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:01PM
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If that is the entire point, I'd rather they be illegal altogether, and we could avoid the debate by saying that we only license human drivers. I thought the entire point was to lower the costs of transportation and lower the number of cars on the road. The dangers of driving are not great enough to give up individual agency to that degree.
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Oh yeah they only kill over 30,000 people a year needlessly. Those lives don't matter I guess. Licensure doesn't stop drunk drivers and cost cutting isn't nearly a good enough incentive. Plus if you're lowering the number of cars on the road that suggests a certain level of centralization for the purposes of routing optimization. At that point, why not? Is your individual agency worth multiple other peoples' lives? You seem to be privileging fate over human life.
And I'm not saying your agency isn't worth other peoples' lives, but the argument that this doesn't matter because it would be rare is silly. It's still a decision that will have to be made and it's an interesting question nonetheless.