Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by aianus on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:35PM
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What's the equivalent of animal trials for autonomous vehicles? Closed-circuit tests?
Is there any evidence that these companies haven't gone through closed circuit tests and passed before testing in public roads?
The next step in drug trials is, in fact, testing on humans and some do suffer serious injury or death. I don't think there's any way around it and the greater good of having a pharmaceutical industry at all outweighs those unfortunate incidents.
Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by Qwertious on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:26PM
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IIRC, 30-40k people die every year in car crashes in the US. Based on the real-world testing Waymo has done over the last few years (where they tested the cars, but had a (not-driving) driver in the driver's seat at all times and weren't doing any commercial service), that figure would drop to essentially zero.
There's no evidence to suggest that is the case. If anything, Tesla has made it more dangerous to assume that it's safe and falsely autonomous.
When you create new drugs, the FDA definitely doesn't look to kindly on people who think like Silicon Valley. "Killing people is product testing" won't fly in pharmaceuticals.
I'm glad that we don't have people like you designing drugs for the masses!