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>we could just as easily go the other way: "It is completely unethical and immoral to delay technology that has the potential to save lives." No, you couldn't
by ksk 8y ago
>we could just as easily go the other way: "It is completely unethical and immoral to delay technology that has the potential to save lives."
No, you couldn't "just as easily" go the other way. Those are not identical positions. My position promotes caution over over-confidence. Further more, the "potential to save lives" is not the exclusive domain of autonomous vehicles. So nobody is "delaying" saving peoples lives. Various methods that can be utilized to reduce causalities that do not rely on technology that has not been shown to work in a conclusive fashion. Planes were unproven tech at some point, and people rightfully refused to fly in them, and they aren't as unsafe now. Technology gets better, and we can hope that autonomous vehicles would get better too.