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> On the subject of danger. Literally everything we do is dangerous to some degree. I don't disagree with your take and I'm a self driving car proponent, but I
by npunt 6y ago
> On the subject of danger. Literally everything we do is dangerous to some degree.
I don't disagree with your take and I'm a self driving car proponent, but I'm worried about what process we take to get there.
One thing I've taken away from the pandemic is that people seem to have no problem imposing their tolerance for risk on others. Seems like we are on a path to play this dynamic out again in how self-driving cars come to market unless that safety profile is really well controlled and understandable.
Even if at a population-level self-driving is slightly safer statistically than person-driving, there are enough edge cases to give me pause right now, and at the individual-level it may raise my risk either as a pedestrian or driver and certainly changes what is predictable behavior [1].
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/why-its-so-hard-to-prove-that-self-driving-technology-is-safe/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04/why-its-so-hard-to-prov...