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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @09:17AM (#16697412)
Over 5k people die in pedestrian/motor vehicle crashes every year. None of them are consenting to being killed. To the extent that you might consider "walking near paved roads" consenting, then that distinction doesn't change if there's computer-driven cars on the road.
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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by kcanini on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:18AM (#16698325)
It is different, because they are testing untested algorithms that have unknown risks and failure modes.
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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by monkeynotes on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:56AM (#16698748)
The software and hardware has been extensively tested on test tracks, they built a whole fake road system in Pittsburgh[1].

Even drug companies can't know what they don't know and end up killing people with extensively tested drugs. Airplanes fall out of the sky because of unknown bugs that simply cannot be reasonably tested for.

Human progress relies on taking mitigated risks.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-fake-city-pittsburgh-se...

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:59PM (#16700695)
Random untested people without driver's licenses and people who no longer possess the faculties to drive safely are on the road all the time. You're being hyperbolic.
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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by gambiting on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:41AM (#16714193)
The difference is obviously that those people break the law, so it's already regulated against.
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