Re:Andrej Karpathy: Why Tesla Removed Radar and Ultrasonic S...
by wonnage on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:13PM
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Wonder if this is a strong argument for public transit too. While self driving cars are developed let make every effort to figure out if we can get people to take the existing self driving trains and subways…
Re:Andrej Karpathy: Why Tesla Removed Radar and Ultrasonic S...
by AlexandrB on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:11AM
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These kinds of moral arguments are silly because they hit a brick wall as soon as they encounter how society operates in practice. If Tesla has a moral obligation to roll out an FSD that's a just a little safer than humans, then do they not also have an obligation to make it available to all their competitors? If not, does every individual have a moral obligation to buy only Tesla cars? Do governments now have an obligation to subsidize Tesla cars so anyone can afford them? Etc.
And all this only considers first order effects. If a 2x safer FSD feels more dangerous that normal driving and thus reduces FSD uptake for a decade, doesn't Tesla have a moral obligation not to release it to preserve the perception of safety of self driving technology?
Ultimately the only requirement is that the system is safer than humans by some margin that people are comfortable with buying such a system. If that amount is even as little as 2x safer than humans, we still have a moral obligation to roll that out even if we could be 5x safer if we had another $50k worth of sensors and processors on the car.