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Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack by neom on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:13PM (#15809836)
Your utopia sounds wonderful. However, that's not how bureaucracy and public safety work.
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Re:G.M. Unveils Its Driverless Cars, Aiming to Lead the Pack by jacquesm on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:16PM (#15809869)
I think you have that backwards.

Bureaucracy and public safety are mis-aligned to the point where a service relying on bureaucracy with a direct impact on public safety is going to be an uphill battle.

It also comes with some very interesting liability issues, such as: if the input data to that service is faulty and you then broadcast it to a bunch of AVs which react to it leading to an accident where would you assign blame?

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