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Which 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 peopl
by apocalyptic0n3 4y ago
Which 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.