Self-Crashing Cars

Re:Self-Crashing Cars by deeg on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:19PM (#16260315)

That's 30k potential deaths compared to 30k deaths right now, every year. If terrorist attacks on cars killed 20k/year it would still be much safer than our current situation. We should mandate that every vehicle death be broadcast on the front page of every national media outlet[1]; that might change our perceptions.

I contend that 40 years from now our grandchildren will be astounded that we got into such dangerous vehicles before self-driving cars.

[1] - I'm being facetious, of course.

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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by roywiggins on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:42PM (#16260472)

Crash all the self-driving ambulances, crash all the gasoline tanker trucks, crash all the trucks that ferry containers out of ports. You might not kill many people today, but when there's no shipping and no ambulance service people will start dying.

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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by jacquesm on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:13PM (#16260663)

If you wanted to really disrupt society you don't need this level of sophistication or a lot of cash. A few thousand $ and a couple of months preparation time would be more than enough. Keep in mind that destruction and creation are extremely asymmetrical when it comes to the level of effort required.

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Re:Self-Crashing Cars by icc97 on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:42PM (#16261288)

Facetiousness aside, this is where I hope car crashes would get to. They should be so rare that they do make the local news. They should be so rare we can treat them like airplane crashes and investigate each case to the same degree.

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