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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by clarky07 on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:37PM (#4352463)
Comparing to smoking seems to be a huge stretch to me. One thing virtually guarantees cancer and an eventual unpleasant death while providing no measurable benefits at all, and the other allows you to easily travel all over the place cheaply with a relatively small chance of a major accident.
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Re:Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without a... by icebraining on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:23PM (#4353171)
virtually guarantees cancer

That's not true at all, the incidence rate of lung cancer in smokers is less than 20%. That's still much higher than for non-smokers (0.4% - 2%), but hardly a "virtual guarantee".

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