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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by c22 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:03PM (#14196929)
What are the odds of a single drunk driver killing thousands of people?
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by bdamm on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:26PM (#14197133)
What are the odds of many drunk drivers killing thousands of people? p(x)=1.0, it happens every year.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by rainbowmverse on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:31PM (#14198253)
Humans are bad at risk assessment. You won't convince everyone a self-driving car is safer with math.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by c22 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:26PM (#14198708)
I agree that self driving cars have the potential to be much safer in the long run, but the concern that a single error could have outsized consequences is too serious to just be swept under the rug because "lol driving is already scary". How many drunk programmers are out there?
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