Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that a thing most people do and some for hours daily has a large effect shouldn’t be surprising

  Oh wow, what good reasoning!

  Let’s all take up smoking cigarettes indoors all day, it’s fine that’s incredibly dangerous and kills people on a literal daily basis because everyone’s doing it, so the effect shouldn’t be surprising!

  /s

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not the argument I’m making. What I’m saying is that if you only take the raw numbers for a given event into account, and don’t consider the population of the event, then you can make any event affecting a large population look like an urgent affair when it’s not so urgent

    Human driven cars should be replaced with automation (or even better, automated public transportation) as soon as it’s viable. It’s not yet, so rushing for corporations to put their unsafe vehicles on the street should not be rushed. Because then the only thing you’ll rush is transforming human driver fatalities into robotic driver fatalities, and you never know how worse things can get

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and don’t consider the population of the event, then you can make any event affecting a large population look like an urgent affair when it’s not so urgent

      How is this different from my cigarettes analogy? You’re just arguing it’s not a big deal that hundreds of people are dying on a daily basis, because a lot of people drive.

      rushing for corporations to put their unsafe vehicles on the street should not be rushed

      Fully agreed.

      Human driven cars should be replaced with automation (or even better, automated public transportation) as soon as it’s viable. It’s not yet

      Except that it is. Waymo already has a safer per mile rating than human drivers.

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