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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by tdb7893 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:56AM (#16474521)
What's the guarantee that a taxi driver will take you where you want to go? You can't inspect his software either. A taxi driver could feasibly just leave the taxi and take his keys with him but practically that doesn't happen. Also you would have a cell phone so could call their support or arrange another car
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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by tree_of_item on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:12PM (#16477937)
The taxi driver is a human, humans have different, less spectacular failure modes. In a world with self-driving cars, it's plausible that there's a bug/hack that makes EVERY car on the road do something wrong or malicious like take you to the wrong destination/drive in to a crowd of people etc.
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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by puppetmaster400 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:32AM (#16482824)
( it won't let me reply on the other thread - pardon, you asked for http://bfy.tw/Gqi6 )
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