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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:36PM (#12979513)
> We can't enforce that humans drive that way after they're licensed

Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for? Sometimes I wish speed limits were universally removed so that police will be forced to enforce the other 99.99% of traffic laws more strictly.

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by grecy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:24PM (#12979952)
> Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for?

They just punish after the fact. I'm still able to make a poor driving choice that results in the injury or death of a bunch of people.

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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:38PM (#12981281)
They also incentivize you to get your shit together before terrible things happen. After all, that's 50% of what punishments are for.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by grecy on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:50PM (#12981416)
Sure, but they still don't physically stop you from doing something bad. It's still very possible, and actually easy to do it.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China by imh on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:43PM (#12983624)
Maybe the word "can't" was a poor choice. My point remains that people pretty much always drive in ways that would fail a DMV driving test. Plus, I know I sure drive differently when cops are around too.
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