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You stop it. They are testing huge, fast robots in public streets. It's messed up. There's a joke among cyclists: "If you want to get away with killing someo
by carapace 5y ago
You stop it. They are testing huge, fast robots in public streets. It's messed up.
There's a joke among cyclists: "If you want to get away with killing someone just be sure that you're driving a car and they're riding a bike." We could make a similar joke about these killer robot cars. "If you want to test killer robots on the public just make sure they are shaped like cars." (And if you need to, you can throw in a "safety driver" as a sort of moral crumple zone to deflect the blame when your robot kills e.g. Elaine Herzberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#After... )
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We could build self-driving golf carts (slow, light, not so capable of killing) and work up to cars, eh?
We don't have to go straight to fast heavy cars, eh?