Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 days agoYou can hold someone accountable when a person runs over a child or a pet. Who is the responsible party when a waymo kills someone?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Even if we replaced every single vehicle in the US with self-driving ones that are 10x safer drivers than humans, that would still lead to 4000 people dying each year plus many more being injured. “Who is responsible” is more of an philosophical question at this point really. It doesn’t quite make sense to punish the head of Waymo for cutting down traffic deaths ten-fold. The need to have someone to blame is something humanity needs to grow out of. Just like the need to drive.