Re:Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles ever...
by icebraining on Saturday July 21, 2018 @03:58AM
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Not eliminate them, the focus is on improving them, and yeah, we should definitively improve bathtubs so people die less in them.
Re:Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles ever...
by lostlogin on Saturday July 21, 2018 @05:51AM
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I’m glad this logic wasn’t applied to planes.
Re:Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles ever...
by perl4ever on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:50PM
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You are thinking of scheduled flights. But general aviation is 80 times more dangerous. So we have refrained from applying an extreme safety culture to all flying. Obviously because there is a trade-off between people being able to do it and safety.
No matter how unlikely it is to die in your prime, something will be the leading cause. Since it is very unlikely to die in your prime in modern first world countries, why focus on that? Are we going to go on a crusade to eliminate bathtubs next? I may be biased, because I'm now too old to die young...