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Probabilities and stats are actually incomplete and naive way people justify human deaths. Let's say you hit another car and kill another driver because you wer
by sytelus 7y ago
Probabilities and stats are actually incomplete and naive way people justify human deaths. Let's say you hit another car and kill another driver because you were texting. This would lead to perhaps prison, heavy fines and taking you off the road to prevent future incidence. However, cars themselves would not get banned. Now imagine the accident was because of car malfunction and not your mistake. What would happen? You guessed right: that models of cars would be taken away from the road.
Now here's a thought experiment: Let's say humans have a choice of only two models of cars: A and B. Car A fails less often, kills fewer people overall but none of the failures are due to human mistake. It just speeds up randomly and uncontrollably sometimes and kills whoever is on the way. Engineers have raised their hand that this cannot be fixed for a few years. On the other hand, car B fails only when a human makes a mistake even though its statistically 10X more overall failures per year. Which car society would approve?