Lefty friends sharing this, and I agree a bit
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"If there was a device that someone invented that improved the economic development of society, at the cost at 10 000 deaths a year, would be allow it? Well, we already do: it's call the automotive."
There is a very real possibility that self-driving cars become widespread by the end of the decade. If that happens, millions of Americans will be out of a job. This isn't like how the car displaced the horse-and-buggy but opened up a means of employment to millions. This is no viable path for someone who spent decades driving a semi to start deciphering computer runes.
How many people died falling off of horses or being kicked in the head by horses prior to the automobile a year? And percentage wise how similar is that number to the overall population that the 10000 automobiles deaths make up?
I don't know, how many horses end up plowing through the side of someone's house or trample over a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk?
Anyway, nice job missing the point, Autismo Maximus.
EDIT: Amerimutts seethe when you tell them that a large metal box going at 30mph is dangerous and might hurt someone.
My point is are the automobile deaths less than deaths from the previous mode of transportation. should probably add what is very likely an increase in saved lives from emergency services like firemen and ambulances compared to the previous mode of being pulled by wagons. Which means people do not put up with 10000 automobile deaths a year compared to the likely vastly outnumbered saved lives from the previous mode of transportation.
You honestly think the government is going to be cool with autonomous vehicles riding around with no driver at the wheel in case of an emergency?
I guess if you ignore any and all air pollution, the accidents in manufacturing from strip mines to assemble lines, and Trucks of Peace delivering cultural enrichment, sure.
You're right, it's actually way higher and growing thanks to everyone staring at their nightmare bricks in one hand while the other stuffs their face with food.
Have you been paying attention to the past several years? You think the government is concerned that someone won't be able to "take control in case of an emergencies". The government doesn't want you to own a vehicle that they don't have control over. Period. You think the push for EVs is because they actually believe in "muh Climate Change"? When they all own beachfront properties?
Of course, that all ignores how automotive don't get drunk, don't get tired, don't get distracted, and don't take there eyes off the road. They don't need to be perfect; they just need to be better than people. The only thing holding everything back is who's going to take liability in the event of an accident.
These devices are already dying. Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, Bixby, whatever Apple's whore is called. All these programs are dying or dead ends. Google and Apple's self-driving divisions are gone. Tesla's is a driving assist mode only because that is all it will ever be. This technology is too unreliable, even with more advanced everything. Self-targeting weapons is the perfect example of this, it's useless on its own. It can only enhance/support human guidance. This shit can only be used off-world and even then, in most basic functions where life is not present. The technology as used in science fiction will never exist. It can't, the limitations are too great.
What's that quote from? Search engines fail me.