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Tesla Under Investigation After Fatal Crash May Have Involved Autopilot System, Report Says (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"This thing that does not exist and nobody has any idea how to make it" will totally be safer than human driving.

You know what is safer than human driving and we know how to make? Trains.

[–] iopq 4 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting for my train from LA to SF. It's been in the works since I was in college. I've already graduated, had multiple jobs, early retired, and there's still no sign of it.

[–] flossdaily 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but that's just silly.

Plenty of people have great ideas on how to make self-driving cars, and we're seeing them come into play.

If you don't understand that computer reaction time is ludicrously faster than human reaction time, and what that means for safety, I really can't help you, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

We all understand the benefits of computer reaction time, computer-assisted safety features are being included in cars all over the world.

But those are "stop" features, that make the car refrain from doing something harmful. The problem are the "go" features, that give a car decision power.

We tend to forget about all the lives saved by the "stop" features and focus on one life lost through a "go" feature. It may be a shortcoming of human nature but we are what we are and this is why "go" features don't have a future.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure people get hit by trains on a daily basis.