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if any of them actually get on the road, then they would be endangering lives https://jperla.medium.com/tesla-saves-lives-waymo-gambles-passenger-lives-3ee2d0e5

• njarboe 6y ago
  Yes. Nothing new can ever be produced that can endanger lives. And people wonder why living standards have not gone up since this idea grabbed a hold in society in the 1970's
  • xnyan 6y ago
    What are some examples of risk not taken that have lead to falling living standards? My understanding of the data is that living standards have fallen because wages for most workers have been fairly stagnate since the 70s while the price things like housing and healthcare has skyrocketed.
    • njarboe 6y ago
      Nuclear power was set to decrease the cost of power by an order of magnitude. It was stopped due to perceived risks while coal was allowed to continue to be used at known high death toll of millions of people per year. You cannot legally build a nuclear reactor in a normal way. You have to design it completely and then get it approved before you build it. This costs around $500 million dollars, as NuPower has shown. If you change the design much at all you have to get it approved all over again. Thus only one new reactor design in the US has been approved for 50 years and it still has not been built yet.