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By this logic doctors are murderers whenever they perform an operation and the patient dies, all equipment manufacturers that make something that's ever resulte
by IanCal 8y ago
By this logic doctors are murderers whenever they perform an operation and the patient dies, all equipment manufacturers that make something that's ever resulted in a death are murderers, all engineers of bridges that collapse under extreme conditions are murderers.
Really widens the net for the concept of murder.
- drivingmenuts 8y agoIf they ever formally codified the acceptable risk resulting in death and operated accordingly, then yes, they might be. However, a doctor is not a machine - there isn't some piece of code that says 10% of all appendicitis cases die. Equipment deaths are usually operator error or perhaps component failure, etc. Bridges? Who knows? The point is that an autonomous vehicle has a programmed decision tree where the others do not and at some point, someone has to have, or should have, taken into account vehicle operation under catastrophic circumstances. Go read up on the trolley problem and tell me if I'm wrong in bringing this up.