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Are you comparing a plane, filled with people, with a combined net worth in the millions, with a truck filled with cardboard boxes? Which worse case takes out

• kp98 7y ago
  Yeah so my point had nothing to do with the value of the cargo and everything to do with the utility of the pilot. He serves other roles like checking system functionality, managing autonomous capabilities, taking control of the flight, communicating with ground control, and interacting with guests. Trucker drivers don't do these things and the payloads are not equivalent. However, truck drivers will still need to oversee the successful docking and unloading of goods, the refilling of gas, mechanical checks, special goods like diary product or gas, and the recipient of the goods. My point was not simply that pilots are there as added security, but also that they serve secondary functions that provide utility from start to finish. In this sense, yes they are similar. Faceless lives can be easy to judge, after all six people is less than 200, and given a median gdp per capita, 350k is less than 12mm. However, the moral hazard I am talking about is that you remove the responsibility from the individual to a faceless corporation. Btw you're not comparing apples to apples anyways, sure a truck may only kill 6 people, but if 100 trucks per day are doing that then that would be worse.