Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by Sholmesy on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:00PM (#16621904)

"Are you saying X" is a pretty aggressive way to frame your argument.

The above poster seems pretty clear that it is NOT obvious that cars will necessarily drive safer than humans on average, in the same way it is NOT obvious that we will ever have General Artificial Intelligence.

These are very complicated problems, and the machines are currently (significantly) worse than human drivers, so I think it's fair to question the argument that "everything will work out eventually"

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by rout39574 on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:24PM (#16622749)

I think the idea that self driving cars "may not ever be" safer than human drivers is ludicrous, even fatuous. We set an abysmally low bar for safety.

I think that is why the very assertive "Are you saying..." is appropriate.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by Sholmesy on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:04AM (#16627177)

Maybe you're right, progress is inevitable.

But humans always overestimate the rate of progress, and think we will be living in some amazing futurescape in the next 10 years.

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