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As soon as a package falls from the sky and injures a child … out will come the knives.
by hn_version_0023 4y ago
As soon as a package falls from the sky and injures a child … out will come the knives.
- xxpor 4y agoBecause that's what happens when a UPS truck runs over a kid, right?
- hn_version_0023 4y agoHonestly if it had happened enough, yes, the metaphorical knives would be drawn by some politicians seeking to capitalize on it for their gain. This is always what happens. Combine it with a new thing no one really seems to want and a dead kid? What do you think would happen?
- xxpor 4y agoPeople will react completely irrationally as they tend to do.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoSeems less likely than a delivery van hitting a child.
- apocalyptic0n3 4y agoWhich is unfortunately normalized at this point. It's like self-driving cars. A self-driving Waymo gets into a single accident and it's frontpage news and people are asking if we need them without thinking about the 50 other accidents from human drivers within a 10 mile radius that same day. All because the latter is normalized. If it survives long enough, accidents from drone deliveries will become normalized too. But they have a long way to go before the public gives them that benefit of the doubt.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoI hope that fatalities caused by drone accidents never get normalized. If they are frequent enough to be normalized then there is a problem. Drones are small enough and slow enough that fatalities should be extremely rare. Injuries might occur, but not fatalities. The opposite should occur: traffic accident fatalities should become denormalized. Every time a pedestrian dies on the roads it should be front page news and have people demanding that politicians should do something. Seems unattainable, but I believe that they are close to this reality in Sweden.
- apocalyptic0n3 4y agoYeah, that's true. I guess I was just trying to explain why it will get a level of scrutiny that other delivery options do not. Wasn't really trying to argue that perhaps we should be looking at the other side of the coin and scrutinizing regular shipping (and driving) more.
- the_only_law 4y agoIf they're dropping shit from the sky willy nilly, we're gonna have problems long before anyone gets hurt.