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I suppose I could've clarified, I'm not necessarily looking at it from the perspective of the safety of people in the vehicles. Right now it's just a small fle
by jjulius 4y ago
I suppose I could've clarified, I'm not necessarily looking at it from the perspective of the safety of people in the vehicles.
Right now it's just a small fleet of driverless taxis. Doesn't this demonstrate the potential for it to be, say, every single Honda in the city? Why even limit it to a city? A single manufacturer's critical infrastructure has some kind of fault (malice, shit code, hardware failure - dealer's choice!) and suddenly Fords stop running nationwide, or internationally.
Then I start thinking of the impact to emergency vehicles caused by a cavalcade of stopped cars, and other similar issues.
Again, I need to point out that I'm not trying to be sensationalist or hyperbolic. I'm ignorant here and am genuinely curious how viable these types of scenarios could be. It's clear that it can happen, I'm just curious to what extent.
- BurningFrog 4y agoOK, those are actually interesting thoughts on new dangers introduced by self driving cars. I hadn't really thought about new single points of failure vulnerabilities as an aspect of this before. I'm still a big SDC fan, the pros are so massively bigger than the cons, but you've given me a new con to be aware of.