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> Your argument that human drivers suck commits the fallacy of whataboutism. No, it doesn't. Self-driving cars are potential substitutes for human-driven cars.
by idopmstuff 3y ago
> Your argument that human drivers suck commits the fallacy of whataboutism.
No, it doesn't. Self-driving cars are potential substitutes for human-driven cars. If self-driving cars cause fewer injuries/accidents/etc. per mile driven, then everyone will be safer if we replace human-driven cars with them. If you object to self-driving cars being on the road even if they're safer than human-driven cars, you are implicitly saying that your preference is for more people to be injured.
- jonathankoren 3y agoWow. This is an argument. You start with a common, but controversial hypothetical, that in the future self-driving cars may be safer than humans, and then conclude with that opposing self-driving cars today, which of course are not the hypothetical safer than humans car, is advocating for actual humans to be injured or killed. That’s some real undergrad level bullshit.
- idopmstuff 3y agoNo, you just didn't read what I wrote. At no point did I assert anything about the relative safety of self driving cars. I said that if you oppose self-driving cars EVEN IF they're safer... That's called the conditional. It means that I'm not saying that thing is true; rather, it means that I am saying that if we take that thing to be true, then something follows logically. The concept of things being conditional is pretty simple, so I guess in that sense it's undergrad level.
- gonehome 3y agoI remember reading somewhere that some large percentage of people can’t understand conditionals - I found it hard to believe, but I’ve been noticing it more and more.