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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by nsxwolf on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @08:03PM (#14801083)
They're freak accidents. We wouldn't tolerate deaths day in and day out to the tune of 40,200 in the US in 2016.

..too lazy to find and paste stat from mobile

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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by devy on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:52AM (#14805204)
You said we won't accept those deaths "even in the single digit", not 40k+ deaths, which is a few orders of magnitude higher.

Also I don't understand why we would accept freak accidents but not other accidents? An accdient is an accident. A death is tragic regardless what caused it.

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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by nsxwolf on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:31PM (#14806660)
We don't accept the robot deaths. Any time one happens people scramble to "make sure this never happens again". When someone dies in a car accident, we yawn.
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