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The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? (www.fastcompany.com)

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Just to be clear, I do think the obvious solution to terrible things like this is vastly expanded public transit so that people don't have to rely on cars to get everywhere, not overhyped technology and driving aids that are still only marginally better than a human driver. I just thought the article was interesting.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I always said this will be the problem. Self-driving cars will never be perfect. They’ll always have different failure modes than human drivers. So at what point is increased safety worth the trade off of new ways to die. Are we there yet?

At what point is it acceptable to the rest of us? Humans will always prefer the risk they know over the one they don’t, even when it’s objectively wrong

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https://fuelarc.com/tech/can-teslas-self-driving-software-detect-bus-only-lanes-not-reliably-no/

edit: it's trivial to find examples of these utterly failing at basic driving. This isn't close to human performance and it is obvious.

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