Re:Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second C...
by weddpros on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:14PM
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I'm baffled that technology-related accidental deaths that can be and will be reduced by technology could feel somehow unacceptable, whereas a higher risk of human caused deaths would be OK just because you hope these humans will be punished somehow.
Let's punish drones then...
Re:Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second C...
by 4ntonius8lock on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:32PM
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> Let's say airplanes failed at 100X rates but it was relatively still less number of deaths if people drove that distance by themselves. Would you be able to argue airplane failure rate was still acceptable?
For me? Absolutely. For most of the people I spend time with? Yes. For the majority of the population? No.
This is why bringing numbers and logic to the arena is so important.
Otherwise, we spend billions avoiding 10 deaths while we could avoid other deaths for mere thousands. Much like coal and nuclear. The level of lunacy is hard to deal with for me.
> Delivery truck crashing into car is a human mistake.
Actually, all drone mistakes are human mistakes. Even if the drone was put together by machine, it was a human process that created it.
You can do a thought experiment: Let's say airplanes failed at 100X of current rates but it was relatively still less number of deaths if people drove that distance by themselves. Would you be able to argue airplane failure rate was still acceptable? For drones, I bet there would be an immediate movement for banning the whole thing if there was a single drone ever fell on playing kindergartners randomly. This is one situation where just bringing data and making rational arguments don't work.