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Re:NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 4... by hedora on Thursday January 19, 2017 @10:56PM (#13441638)
Yes. Otherwise, you'd hear about coal pollution all the time, but nuclear meltdowns wouldn't make the news (unless they became much more frequent).

Similarly, 9/11 would be a footnote compared to sketchy pain killer drug trials. The black lives matter movement would focus more on sentencing disparities and for-profit prison conditions than police shootings, etc, etc.

The reason it matters here is that it's presumably easy for Tesla to fix any bugs that are killing people.

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Re:NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 4... by bsbechtel on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:22AM (#13442388)
You are making comparisons between unrelated domains to make your point, which isn't really fair. Nonetheless, I think what you are really wanting to say is there is always room for improvement, and we should strive for that even if we've already made massive gains.
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Re:NHTSA’s full investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 4... by loup-vaillant on Friday January 20, 2017 @09:40AM (#13444049)
Simply put, saving lives should not stop one from saving even more lives, if possible.
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