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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's equally ridiculous to say. Self driving cars just need to be better than people to be worth it, they just currently are not better than people.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's ridiculous to think that cars shouldn't be killing people? Well smack my ass and call me an extremist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's ridiculous to say that if self driving cars kill fewer people than human driven cars but still more than zero that we should not use them. That's like saying "why use seatbelts, they're not 100% effective."

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not what I said though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you trying to be this much of an idiot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the implications of the logic you're using.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with logic but it's not complicated. Zero people should be killed by cars, therefore anything that gets us closer to that ideal number is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think we have different meanings of the word "should".

[–] wile_e8 6 points 1 year ago

Are you calling for a ban on human driven cars? They killed more than zero people yesterday! If you aren't, you've accepted a human-driven vehicular homicide rate above zero.