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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by twblalock on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:49PM (#20350192)
Driving is dangerous in generally predictable ways, and people accept that. People also accept that there is usually someone to blame for most car accidents. Driving is dangerous but it is under human control.

Autonomous vehicles are dangerous in unpredictable ways. People might be injured or die in accidents that would not have happened with human drivers, as the result of software bugs rather than human decisions. When things like that happen, statistics about accident and death rates being lower with self-driving cars are beside the point.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by Consultant32452 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:20PM (#20350690)
Hopefully our regulators can regulate rationally, even if our click-bait-emotionally driven general public cannot. If they can manage it, thousands of lives will be saved.
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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by unionpivo on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:37AM (#20352745)
It's not regulators you should worry about.

Its politicians, who are all about "click-bait-emotionally driven" to bring them votes, you should worry about.

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