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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by megablast on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:06PM (#12888731)
So you don't think we suck, because for some reason you have a preconceived notion of how we should suck more, and how many accidents we should have?

I guess a million deaths is also an acceptable number a year for you?

This is part of the problem. In some countries, they aim for 0 fatalities, but in most we accept the number of deaths we have now.

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Re:Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human ... by freditup on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:28PM (#12888815)
Oh, don't be so dour and patronizing. Of course nobody wants traffic deaths. I explicitly stated that I'm not trying to start an argument about the definition of "suck". I was simply observing that I find it amazing that our roads work as well as they do now, given human propensity for error.
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