Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
by rgbrenner on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:29PM
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If unnecessary red tape slows things down and causes 100k extra deaths is that ok?
That's an imaginary scenario. You have no idea if that's the way it plays out. Let me give you another scenario: the first self-driving cars kill a bunch of people, and no one wants to touch them for years after they finally become safe; delaying the adoption of cars, and causing millions of additional people to die.
Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
by FeepingCreature on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:08PM
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Very unlikely. Self-driving cars are potentially enormously profitable; with such profitable products I think you'll find that the opinion of an outraged public matters somewhat less than it customarily does.
In the future, 1.2m people die a year so say self driving reduces that to 0.2m/year, that's a million lives saved per year.
You family is thousands of times more likely to die in a conventional motor accident than due to a self driving vehicle. If unnecessary red tape slows things down and causes 100k extra deaths is that ok? Even if someone you know is amongst the 100k?
That said there's an argument system like Hotz's should be tested first. That's probably not going to slow things that much.