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> obvious engineering solution is to ban pedestrians and design for cars only. No, the obvious engineering solution is to ban cars, the worst means of transpor
by komali2 3y ago
> obvious engineering solution is to ban pedestrians and design for cars only.
No, the obvious engineering solution is to ban cars, the worst means of transporting humans ever conceived, and design for pedestrians only. If we want motorized vehicles sharing space anywhere near pedestrians, they should be operated only by highly trained professionals (e.g. taxi drivers with retest licensing requirements, commercial truck drivers, bus drivers, etc), or, by vehicles on rails (subways, trolleys, trains).
- montag 3y agoI hope we can soon restrict human-operated cars.
- jeffreygoesto 3y agoHow soon? A well proven prediction seems to be "50 years from now" still... At least for Level 5.
- littlestymaar 3y agoGiven how the automated ones are being developed in a “move fast and break thing” fashion by engineers under strong management pressure to deliver ASAP, I'm not sure the alternative is too much of an improvement. If we added mandatory formal methods use (mathematically proving the code's invariants) during development, and gave full criminal liability to the managers in charge of the project when someone is injured/killed, then it probably would, but we clearly aren't there yet.