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I wonder if people said the same thing when elevators went from manual motor controls to automatic push buttons.
by jws 8y ago
I wonder if people said the same thing when elevators went from manual motor controls to automatic push buttons.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI'm sure some did. I base my decisions on risk ranking. Let's look at an elevator. An elevator can go up or down and has inertia brakes among other safety mechanisms. Most of these mechanisms are regulated and inspected and can not be disabled by software. I have watched videos of elevators behaving badly, but it takes a comedy of errors and many inept people for this to be a thing. An autonomous car on the other hand, can do anything a car can do and anything that the buggy or compromised software tells it to do. I will not be victim to the first angst filled 12 year old that is abused by his/her parents daily, or by some burnt out developer, or a serial number typo in an assassination attempt. The serial number of my car could be one digit off from some politician or spy. By all means, have fun in these things. Nobody will convince me to use one of these cars. Not now, not five hundred years from now.