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A comment on Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk. Parent comment
Say, you claim your product works, on the average, for 80 years before breaking.
I believe you, buy it, and it promptly breaks within 2 years of operation.
Maybe I was unlucky. But high more likely, you were bullshitting me.
That's what we have here.
Human death rate: 1 death / 80 million miles
Uber's death rate: 1 death after 2 million miles
So yes, we can make judgement calls.
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Say, you claim your product works, on the average, for 80 years before breaking.
I believe you, buy it, and it promptly breaks within 2 years of operation.
Maybe I was unlucky. But high more likely, you were bullshitting me.
That's what we have here.
Human death rate: 1 death / 80 million miles
Uber's death rate: 1 death after 2 million miles
So yes, we can make judgement calls.