Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
by valine on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:12PM
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that rolling stop signs is not a slippery slope to robot rapists.
Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
by Teever on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:21PM
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I think you're right.
Programming a several ton machine to disregard laws and potentially kill many pedestrians without warning isn't really comparable to programming a machine to rape -- it's unfathomable worse.
I've worked in factories and the idea that a car company can release a machine onto the streets that wouldn't be allowed anywhere near a factory floor is flabbergasting.
If a company tried to release a product that had this safety profile in a factory setting the governments and unions would be all over them.
The fact that some jackass yokel or senile old lady routinely roll through stop signs daily doesn't justify Tesla releasing a product that does the same.
Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
by valine on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:33PM
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Equating rolling stops to rape has to be the worst argument against FSD I’ve ever heard. I’m honestly at a loss for words. Safely proceeding through an intersection without coming to a complete stop hurts nothing, except maybe the feelings of traffic law puritans.
Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
by caf on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:00PM
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If a company tried to release a product that had this safety profile in a factory setting the governments and unions would be all over them.
I think the same is probably true of cars/trucks in general.
This is a terrible line of reasoning.
If Tesla ever releases their vaporware humanoid bot would you expect them to program it to rape women in cultures where women rape is part of the culture?