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Nobody here is calling for a flat ban of all self-driving technology. You are tilting at strawmen. The blowback here is in reaction to what appears to be objec
by gascan 8y ago
Nobody here is calling for a flat ban of all self-driving technology. You are tilting at strawmen.
The blowback here is in reaction to what appears to be objectively bad software. Irresponsibly bad. Maybe even negligently bad.
Look to drug trials & the FDA. We take risk to test possibly life-saving drugs. But, we don't let just any whackjob take his unproven mad science experiment to clinical trial and inject people with mantis DNA.
- zaroth 8y agoWe’re talking about whether it’s reasonable to beta test self-driving tech on public roads, and the relative risk of slowing down the advancement of self-driving technology (this is what is meant by “shifting the adoption curve to the right” — as in, seeing widespread adoption of self-driving further into the future). I don’t think it’s a strawman at all to observe that greater regulations and restrictions on public testing will delay wide-spread self driving. Nor is it unreasonable to surmise a multi-year shift in the adoption curve could cost millions of lives. I mean, argue that public mistrust of the technology due to sensationalization of the highly public (yet rare) failures is more likely to delay rollout worse than stricter regulations. There’s a reasonable rebuttal I could engage with! But what I got instead was... mantis DNA?
- gascan 8y agoA reference to my favorite mad inventor: "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts." -Cave Johnson The strawman is you're the only one talking about banning self-driving test mules from the road.