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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by jacquesm on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:38AM (#28299904)
> If you never fail, you aren't moving fast enough.

Start-up religion doesn't really work when there are lives on the line. That's fine for your social media platform du jour but please don't bring that attitude to anything that has 'mission critical' in the description. That includes medicine, finance, machine control, traffic automation, utilities and so on.

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Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco by unpolloloco on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:30AM (#28301410)
But what about that million people who die every year now? Are the few thousand people who will die because of AI mishaps worth more than the million who die due to human mishaps?

Not to say that we shouldn't be cautious here, but over-caution kills people too

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