Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s actually a backfire effect here. It could make companies too cautious in rolling out self driving. The status quo is people driving poorly. If you delay the roll out of self driving beyond the point when it’s better than people, then more people will die.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck that I’m not a beta tester for a company. What happened to having a good product and then releasing it. Not oh let’s see what happens.

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    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not that simple. Imagine you’re dieing of a rare terminal disease. A pharma company is developing a new drug for it. Obviously you want it. But they tell you you can’t have it because “we’re not releasing it until we know it’s good”.

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      • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is, or was (thanks RFK for handing the industry a blank check), how pharma development works. You don’t even get to do human trials until you’re pretty damn sure it’s not going to kill anyone. “Experimental medicine” stuff you read about is still medicine that’s been in development for YEARS, and gone through animal, cellular, and various other trials.

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  • susurrus0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The status quo is people driving poorly.

    It’s not people driving poorly, as much as it is horrible city planning, poor traffic design and, perhaps most importantly, not requiring people to be educated enough before receiving a driver’s license.

    This is an issue seen practically exclusively in underdeveloped countries. In Europe road accidents are incredibly rare. Nobody here even considers self-driving cars a solution to anything, because there’s nothing to solve.

    This is nothing but Tesla (et al.) selling a ‘solution’ to an artificially created problem, that will not solve anything and simply address the symptoms.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even if self driving cars kill less people, they’ll still destroy our quality of life.

    youtu.be/040ejWnFkj0

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  • haloduder@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This isn’t really something you can be ‘too cautious’ about.

    Hopefully we can at least agree that as of right now, they’re not being cautious enough.

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    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an exercise to remove the bias from this, replace self driving cars with airbags. In some rare cases they might go off accidentally and do harm that wouldn’t have occurred in their absence. But all cars have airbags. More and more with every generation. If you are so cautious about accidental detonations that you choose not to install them in your car, then you’re being too cautious.

      I can’t agree that they’re not being cautious enough. I didn’t even read the article. I’m just arguing about the principle. And I don’t have a clue what the right penalty would be. I would need to be an actuary with access to lots of data I don’t have to figure out the right number to provide the right deterrent.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s hard to prove that point, though. rolling out self driving may just make car usage go up and negate rate decreases by increasing overall usage

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