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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1958/ https://xkcd.com/1958/ > I worry about self-driving car safety features. > What's to stop someone from painting fake lin
by ketzo 5y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1958/ https://xkcd.com/1958/
> I worry about self-driving car safety features.
> What's to stop someone from painting fake lines on the road, or dropping a cutout of a pedestrian onto a highway, to make cars swerve and crash?
> Except... those things would also work on human drivers. What's stopping people now?
> Yeah, causing car crashes isn't hard.
> I guess it's just that most people aren't murderers?
> Oh, right, I always forget.
> An underappreciated component of our road safety system.
- citilife 5y agoThat's how I feel about most dangerous situations in general and I think the national news highlights one-off events in a way we historically were not used to. For instance, taking out the United States internet would probably only required 3-4 strategic bombings. I bring this up because Tennessee had one of those bombed Christmas last year -- https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/28/22202822/att-outage-nashville-christmas-bombing https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/28/22202822/att-outage-nash... > This brought down wireless and wired networks across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama Most people aren't all that concerned about doing damage. Keep people happy and generally you don't have crime.