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

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Emphasis goes on “even though”.

    As in “At GM we’re so benevolent that we’re doing a software update even though we think this will only kill someone every 10m miles (which we consider an acceptable murder rate for our cars)”.

      • great_site_not@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but equally you could argue that if all cars were self-driving this accident wouldn’t have happened. It involved a human making a mistake first.

          I kind of feel like we’re getting the wrong takeaway from self driving cars.

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            1 year ago

            What kind of mistake can a pedestrian make to cause a self-driving car run over them, and how does making more cars self-driving prevent that mistake?