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“You can fail to be against something without being for it.” Not sure what that means, but testing autonomous vehicles will result in deaths. So, you either de

“You can fail to be against something without being for it.” Not sure what that means, but testing autonomous vehicles will result in deaths. So, you either decide zero deaths are acceptable and don’t test, or allow some deaths and test. There is no third option in this case

DoreenMichele 8y ago
FYI: All caps on the internet is generally considered to be yelling and is a violation of HN guidelines.
- vasilipupkin 8y ago
  I changed it to comply with guidelines. Feel free to respond to substance.
fucking_tragedy 8y ago
Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties. If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise. However, if I am walking down the street and I'm run over by a rogue autonomous vehicle, I didn't give consent. I don't think anyone would be as blasé as they are with autonomous vehicle deaths in a different situation. For example, if a potential cure for heart disease was tested by dumping it in the public water supply causing people to die, would we have posters here saying that testing such drugs will result in deaths and shrug them off?
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  > If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise. Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option. I understand not agreeing to extremely-risky self-driving cars. But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough. Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense. If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar. And all the evidence I've seen is that Waymo is meeting that bar. > For example People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs!
  - fucking_tragedy 8y ago
    > Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option. There's a very low bar for them to pass to have their driving privileges revoked if they prove themselves to be a danger. Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy. > But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough. "If". We have some very lax standards for what we consider intelligible English, yet Alexa can't set a timer correctly when I tell it to. > Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense. Who is proposing this? > If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar. Do you apply this accident causation blindness universally? Do you care if a person that hits you was drunk or lacked a driver's license vs driving diligently and licensed? > People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs! Some people might object to allowing unproven autonomous vehicles onto the street as stupid, but choose not to use that word in effort to have a respectful discussion.
    - dnomad 8y ago
      > Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties. The state consented on your behalf. You, in fact, automatically "consented" to all sorts of dangerous and dubious experiments, including democracy itself, when you became a resident. Though the entire idea that self-driving cars are dangerous and experimental has no basis in reality and by all accounts Waymo's cars are ridiculously safe, even if it were the case that they were dangerous Waymo is operating with the full blessings of the Arizona government. > Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy. Of course society does not "necessitate" anything. Society is not some natural phenomenon like gravity that operates in necessity. And there are many, many people who would point out that they do not agree with and certainly do not consent to America's dangerous obsession with car ownership that kills 50k Americans a year and has tremendous economic and ecological consequences. But alas.

DoreenMichele 8y ago

FYI: All caps on the internet is generally considered to be yelling and is a violation of HN guidelines.

vasilipupkin 8y ago
I changed it to comply with guidelines. Feel free to respond to substance.

fucking_tragedy 8y ago

Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties. If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise. However, if I am walking down the street and I'm run over by a rogue autonomous vehicle, I didn't give consent. I don't think anyone would be as blasé as they are with autonomous vehicle deaths in a different situation. For example, if a potential cure for heart disease was tested by dumping it in the public water supply causing people to die, would we have posters here saying that testing such drugs will result in deaths and shrug them off?

Dylan16807 8y ago
> If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise. Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option. I understand not agreeing to extremely-risky self-driving cars. But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough. Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense. If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar. And all the evidence I've seen is that Waymo is meeting that bar. > For example People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs!
- fucking_tragedy 8y ago
  > Do you consent to the risks of letting 16 year olds drive? They're high, but you don't get the option. There's a very low bar for them to pass to have their driving privileges revoked if they prove themselves to be a danger. Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy. > But if they can beat the very lax standards we use to license humans, that should be good enough. "If". We have some very lax standards for what we consider intelligible English, yet Alexa can't set a timer correctly when I tell it to. > Requiring them to be infinitely more perfect than humans is nonsense. Who is proposing this? > If a car drives you over, do you really care if it was a robot or a human driving? I don't. The most I can ask for is a universal bar. Do you apply this accident causation blindness universally? Do you care if a person that hits you was drunk or lacked a driver's license vs driving diligently and licensed? > People would object because that's a stupid way to test and unrelated to the job of delivering safe water. If you want to talk about real water treatments, we do make tradeoffs! Some people might object to allowing unproven autonomous vehicles onto the street as stupid, but choose not to use that word in effort to have a respectful discussion.
  - dnomad 8y ago
    > Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties. The state consented on your behalf. You, in fact, automatically "consented" to all sorts of dangerous and dubious experiments, including democracy itself, when you became a resident. Though the entire idea that self-driving cars are dangerous and experimental has no basis in reality and by all accounts Waymo's cars are ridiculously safe, even if it were the case that they were dangerous Waymo is operating with the full blessings of the Arizona government. > Society necessitates that people drive. Society does not necessitate that Company X gets autonomous vehicles on the roads by target date Y so that their investors are happy. Of course society does not "necessitate" anything. Society is not some natural phenomenon like gravity that operates in necessity. And there are many, many people who would point out that they do not agree with and certainly do not consent to America's dangerous obsession with car ownership that kills 50k Americans a year and has tremendous economic and ecological consequences. But alas.