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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by krschultz on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:31PM (#12841555)
Only this would be worse. Someone can choose to buy Soylent or use Theranos for themselves and no one else gets hurt. If you a person buys a crappy self driving car system it could kill me, a totally unrelated person.

I don't care how much of a libertarian you are, that's exactly the reason why we have regulations.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by wolfgke on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:35PM (#12841583)
> I don't care how much of a libertarian you are

Also ask how risk-averse/-taking the other side is.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by M_Grey on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:56PM (#12841704)
I agree with you, I'm just pointing out that we're already in the age of profitable, harmful bullshit.

As for me, I'm not one of those deluded fools who believes in the law of jungle, and that I wouldn't be dog food in that jungle.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by hash-set on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:11PM (#12842559)
The law of the jungle is fine, but it won't preclude a shitty self-driving car from crashing through your living room and killing one of your kids. It's one thing to suffer harm to yourself, it is quite another to go through losing a child to something like that. I know, randomness, blah blah blah.
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