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> It won’t take but a couple of cute kids killed in a surprising matter to shut down the whole autonomous experiment. That is sacrificing the counterfactual ch
by the8472 6y ago
> It won’t take but a couple of cute kids killed in a surprising matter to shut down the whole autonomous experiment.
That is sacrificing the counterfactual children that wouldn't have been killed if the bad human driver had been replaced by an average autonomous car.
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoSociety isn't without emotion. As much as we engineers want to look at numbers and say "see, safer!" That does little to help people who have had deaths, or the visceral impact that death can have.
- the8472 6y agoYou also end up reducing the number of people who are impacted by death or who have to feel those emotions. Yes, in the process of touching the system you also end up shuffling around who gets affected but in the end it's just part of the process of affecting fewer people.