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Death by robocar is simply unacceptable. Death by shared responsibility is well accepted. It’s about agency and consent. If you rescued a group of 30 drowning
by satisfice 5y ago
Death by robocar is simply unacceptable.
Death by shared responsibility is well accepted. It’s about agency and consent.
If you rescued a group of 30 drowning people with your yacht. No one thinks you can shoot one or two on the head, on a whim, and argue that it’s okay— based on the fact that your actions led to a net saving of 28 lives.
So, how you die matters. We human drivers are all out there making a reasonable effort to avoid accidents. The standard self-driving tech must be held to is also “reasonableness.” None of the deaths due to self-driving cars I have heard of can meet that standard. They are unacceptable.