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Interesting indeed. But I wonder whether all the (often accurate) attempts to lay bare contradictions in human perception and judgement lead anywhere. People m
by imartin2k 9y ago
Interesting indeed. But I wonder whether all the (often accurate) attempts to lay bare contradictions in human perception and judgement lead anywhere.
People might be comfortable with airbags despite them occasionally malfunctioning and killing someone but uncomfortable with an AV that can make its own decisions and that, in extremely rare cases, might make a wrong decision and kill someone - without seeing any problem or contradiction.
- cctt23 9y agoPeople have not always been comfortable with airbags, or even seatbelts. It took many years of technologies proving themselves thousands of times before they achieved widespread acceptance. It probably helped thst in both cases they didn’t represent trillions of dollars in value to heartless technocrats, but were just safety improvements to existing vehicles.