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Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot by shiftpgdn on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:25PM (#24804110)
Nonsense. Airplanes can do 99.9% of their flying without human intervention, but we don't hear about planes slamming into mountain sides because a pilot was texting or browsing the internet.

The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube for about $200 and 20 hours of training time. And punishments are extremely lax for when mistakes are made.

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Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot by wtetzner on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:56PM (#24804425)
>Nonsense

> The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube

I don't see how it's nonsense, given that the driver's license problem isn't going to be solved any time soon. The problem is that our society practically requires basically everyone to be able to drive to function, unless you happen to live in one of the relatively rare places with good public transportation.

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Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot by azinman2 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:32PM (#24813558)
Flying in the air above the clouds and mountains is nothing like driving on a road with pure unpredictability all around you and needing to solve close to AGI in order to achieve it.
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