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The broader population will only remember the drone accusation. A drone maybe hitting a plane is far more interesting and sensationalist than a drone not hitti

by jblok 10y ago

The broader population will only remember the drone accusation. A drone maybe hitting a plane is far more interesting and sensationalist than a drone not hitting a plane. There are thousands of instances every day where drones don't hit planes. That's just how the human psyche/news in general works. You can't accuse the BBC of not reporting the updated news. Some shadier outlets might choose not to however.

cm3 10y ago
I do blame news outlets going for sensational news rather than factual statements. This is real journalism: "Flight X234 had to emergency land due to a collision with an unidentified object right after takeoff. It is not unusual to hit birds or other objects, but at at this time we don't know what it was." This is pimping news for money: "OMG, terrorist drone bought at 7/11 was navigated by attackers into plane to kill citizens." Why is libel misused to silence people, while so-called journalists can lie?
- notahacker 10y ago
  A pilot landed an aircraft after a collision with an object he believed to be a drone, following four confirmed incidents of drone near misses at UK airports in recent months. Media reported the incontrovertible fact of the aircraft landing and the pilot's presumably good-faith belief it was a drone. The BBC even put 'drone' in inverted commas in their original headline. You are seriously arguing that this amounts to "lies" and should be suppressed?
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themartorana 10y ago
This is the identical thing that will make adoption of self-driving cars difficult on a broad scale. Thousands of human-caused accidents and deaths, but the first person to die in a self-driving car (even if it's not that car's fault) will be devastating to rollout.
- taneq 10y ago
  Well, of course. Other humans are fallible and crash their cars all the time, but I'm a good driver and would never crash, so I don't want a self-driving car.
- makomk 10y ago
  This is probably an understandable assumption, given that the car manufacturer will inevitably try and spin it as the driver's fault no matter what. For example, take the Cruise crash a while ago: car starts swerving in automatic mode, driver takes control but fails to bring it back on course before it crashes into a parked car. Headline in The Verge "Startup’s self-driving test car crashes after driver takes control", uncritically reports Cruise's claim that it was the driver's fault because they 'had "enough time" to correct the path of the vehicle to avoid the accident, but "unfortunately made a mistake."'

by jblok 10y ago

cm3 10y ago

I do blame news outlets going for sensational news rather than factual statements. This is real journalism: "Flight X234 had to emergency land due to a collision with an unidentified object right after takeoff. It is not unusual to hit birds or other objects, but at at this time we don't know what it was." This is pimping news for money: "OMG, terrorist drone bought at 7/11 was navigated by attackers into plane to kill citizens." Why is libel misused to silence people, while so-called journalists can lie?

notahacker 10y ago
A pilot landed an aircraft after a collision with an object he believed to be a drone, following four confirmed incidents of drone near misses at UK airports in recent months. Media reported the incontrovertible fact of the aircraft landing and the pilot's presumably good-faith belief it was a drone. The BBC even put 'drone' in inverted commas in their original headline. You are seriously arguing that this amounts to "lies" and should be suppressed?
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themartorana 10y ago

This is the identical thing that will make adoption of self-driving cars difficult on a broad scale. Thousands of human-caused accidents and deaths, but the first person to die in a self-driving car (even if it's not that car's fault) will be devastating to rollout.

taneq 10y ago
Well, of course. Other humans are fallible and crash their cars all the time, but I'm a good driver and would never crash, so I don't want a self-driving car.
makomk 10y ago
This is probably an understandable assumption, given that the car manufacturer will inevitably try and spin it as the driver's fault no matter what. For example, take the Cruise crash a while ago: car starts swerving in automatic mode, driver takes control but fails to bring it back on course before it crashes into a parked car. Headline in The Verge "Startup’s self-driving test car crashes after driver takes control", uncritically reports Cruise's claim that it was the driver's fault because they 'had "enough time" to correct the path of the vehicle to avoid the accident, but "unfortunately made a mistake."'