Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
by ghaff on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:04AM
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Substances used to excess and technology like electricity used improperly are in a different category than consumer-facing products that can kill you randomly through no fault of your own.
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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
by vasilipupkin on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:03AM
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Why?. Alcohol is a consumer product sold everywhere and is one of the main killers.
Tobacco is an even better example, in that even when used in the "recommended" way it's often fatal.
And there was a very large settlement related to tobacco.
Legal "drugs" and unhealthy foods are something of a special case. They've been around for a very long time and we've decided as a society we're mostly accepting of them and have greater or lesser restrictions on their purchase and use.
But we're pretty unaccepting of consumer products that are assumed to be safe and then blow up or malfunction in some manner that kills a user minding their own business and not doing anything wrong.