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The Wright brothers only endangered themselves. Autonomous vehicles endanger everybody around them. If electric, those vehicles weigh well over 2 tonnes and ha
by foepys 5y ago
The Wright brothers only endangered themselves.
Autonomous vehicles endanger everybody around them. If electric, those vehicles weigh well over 2 tonnes and have the potential to kill people even inside other vehicles.
"Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make" is not a good motto.
- renewiltord 5y agoWe don’t allow people to hurt themselves. Sometimes it is only through violation of these ethical norms that we get progress: cardiac catheterization is the classic example.
- krisoft 5y ago> We don’t allow people to hurt themselves. Of course we do. You can go to a grocery store and buy plenty sugary drinks to kill yourself slowly. Or you can buy a car and drive full speed into a wall. Or you can join a fitness cult and excercise so much you die from it. Or to stay at topic you can build your own airplane. The unnoficial motto of the faa experimental regulations is that everyone is entitled to pick their own funeral. The regulations are not designed to keep you safe, but to keep others safe.
- renewiltord 5y agoHmm, this is a fair point. We allow people to hurt themselves in certain ways. There is most definitely some threshold above which we make it illegal but I can’t tell what the threshold is. It’s not “risk of death” because BASE jumping would be outlawed then. But it’s clear we do this “for your own good” falsely often.
- tdrdt 5y agoBut China is a country that is different. I can imagine they take some accidents for granted when they can be the number one in the world. Because that will be good for the whole country.