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Re:Nissan pledges commercially viable autonomous drive by 2020. by hrvbr on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:14PM (#6285503)
Cars are way too dangerous. We accept the absurdly high number of injuries and deaths they cause only by lack of a better mean of transportation.

I hope self-driving cars will have hyper-efficient safety mechanisms, especially to protect pedestrians and bikers, not just the car's passengers. This would be a huge progress for humanity.

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Re:Nissan pledges commercially viable autonomous drive by 2020. by Contero on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:30PM (#6285647)
Making self-driving cars safer than people-driven cars is trivial. The hard thing will be handling the tidal wave of FUD when the inevitable happens and someone dies as a result of one. Google or Nissan or whoever will need a mountain of good PR and safety statistics to be able to push it back. That alone is enough reason to motivate the creation of "hyper-efficient safety mechanisms".
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