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baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Emphasis goes on “even though”.

As in “At GM we’re so benevolent that we’re doing a software update even though we think this will only kill someone every 10m miles (which we consider an acceptable murder rate for our cars)”.

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trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How frequently this type of incident occurs is outside the control of GM.

In the crash, another vehicle with a person behind the wheel struck a pedestrian, sending the person into the path of a Cruise autonomous vehicle. The Cruise initially stopped but still hit the person.

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- baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You missed the part where this was specifically about their car dragging the person for 20ft after the crash and pinning them under the wheel?
  
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  - trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I didn’t address it because you didn’t say anything about it.
    
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marietta_man@yall.theatl.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No one was killed in the accident they are stating the rate of.

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- great_site_not@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah but equally you could argue that if all cars were self-driving this accident wouldn’t have happened. It involved a human making a mistake first.
    
    I kind of feel like we’re getting the wrong takeaway from self driving cars.
    
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    great_site_not@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What kind of mistake can a pedestrian make to cause a self-driving car run over them, and how does making more cars self-driving prevent that mistake?
    
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