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Lawn Darts only killed one person before they were banned, I think Autopilot is at 3 or 4 and counting, and Uber's driverless system has killed at least one ped
by femto113 7y ago
Lawn Darts only killed one person before they were banned, I think Autopilot is at 3 or 4 and counting, and Uber's driverless system has killed at least one pedestrian.
- slezyr 7y agoNever heard about Lawn Darts. > In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts in the U.S. Out of that total, 81% were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma. From wikipedia. It's a bad example.
- femto113 7y agoIt once was the canonical X in "we banned X why haven't we banned Y" (where Y is something like "assault rifles" or "peanuts") but perhaps only for people of a certain age. A more recent example: the Boeing 737 MAX was grounded after two accidents out of a few hundred thousand flights.