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Nah, I think it’s more that people like to be in control. Planes are safer than cars, but plenty of people are afraid of flying. Maybe there’s something psychol
by Brendinooo 4y ago
Nah, I think it’s more that people like to be in control. Planes are safer than cars, but plenty of people are afraid of flying. Maybe there’s something psychological about going hundreds of miles per hour thousands of feet in the air, but what I usually hear as the reason is that people don’t like that they’re not in control of the systems.
(Also that media plays up plane crashes, but that would almost certainly be true of autonomous crashes as well.)
- kube-system 4y agoThat's what I meant by > the factor of control is why people are more comfortable with that failure mode, than a failure mode which may be more unpredictable. There are situations in which control mitigates risk, and there are situations in which it doesn't. While the average crash rate is relevant to public health, it's really irrelevant to someone who is dead.