Comment on Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

• raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s equally ridiculous to say. Self driving cars just need to be better than people to be worth it, they just currently are not better than people.

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  • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s ridiculous to think that cars shouldn’t be killing people? Well smack my ass and call me an extremist.

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    • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, it’s ridiculous to say that if self driving cars kill fewer people than human driven cars but still more than zero that we should not use them. That’s like saying “why use seatbelts, they’re not 100% effective.”

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      • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s not what I said though.

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    • wile_e8@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you calling for a ban on human driven cars? They killed more than zero people yesterday! If you aren’t, you’ve accepted a human-driven vehicular homicide rate above zero.

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is more than zero. Anything that beats humans is a win. Getting to zero is unrealistic. Nothing has a zero risk of death.

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  • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Correct, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Zero is the ideal number, so anything that gets us closer to that is good.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re shifting goal posts.

      What’s the acceptable vehicular homicide rate? GM seems to think it’s more than zero.

      Correct, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Zero is the ideal number, so anything that gets us closer to that is good.

      Acceptable is different than ideal.

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      • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Only if you want it to be.

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      • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok ya pedantic fuck. I edited my comment just for you. I know English is hard to understand.

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