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I'm sorry, but how can you be this media illiterate in this day and age? You're making conclusions about things based on sensationalist news which - by definit

I'm sorry, but how can you be this media illiterate in this day and age? You're making conclusions about things based on sensationalist news which - by definition - report on uncommon events? And extrapolate wildly based on 1 or 3 isolated incidents? "8 billion people didn't get murdered today" isn't news. "600,000 accident free miles driven last month" isn't news. In situations like this, only large scale data matters.

thorncorona 3y ago
Then you should also know quality of the data matters. Driving on empty streets and counting those as miles is like eating empty calories. Perhaps if you'd looked at the news reports you'd have a different opinion. Cruise vehicles all simultaneously stopped working near a music festival where they couldn't get a 4G connection, causing a traffic jam as the festival ended. All their incidents speak to a lack of safe engineering practices. In any case here's another HN thread today about Cruise being suspended. For obvious reasons. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002752