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Re:GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars... by kalenx on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:15PM (#20518643)
Well I do not think the issue is about following the unwritten rules. The issue is for a company to admit "yeah we're willingly programing/training our vehicles to break the law". Sure, it might be actually less dangerous to do so, but I'm not sure their PR department will be happy about it.
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Re:GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:20PM (#20518687)
I fully expect you are correct. I'm sure the engineers riding along are well aware how overly conservative they're being.
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Re:GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars... by princeb on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:39AM (#20524229)
are the engineers "over-conservative"? or have human drivers become inured to what should have been considered an unacceptable amount of driving risk?
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Re:GM Cruise to delay commercial launch of self-driving cars... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:39AM (#20524488)
What's "acceptable risk" is basically a matter of social consensus so anything human drivers (as a group) are ok with is de-facto acceptable.

I think the engineers know the software drives un-humanly but they can't change it because driving like a dick within the letter of the law results in far less legal liability than driving like a human and breaking the law.

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