Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
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#2It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#3It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
It may lower to death toll of avoidable accidents.
The author isn't wrong that tons of metal moving at any speed can be absolutely fatal.
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#4Not by itself; but if the high-speed crash rate drops to almost nothing we can make cars much lighter and lower; reverse the SUV arms-race that has made the streets more deadly than ever.
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#5Paywall: is this perfect being the enemy of good?
Planes, trains, bicycles, people die on all of them. Would she argue airline autopilot was a bad thing? Well, paywall so who knows.
Self-driving tech with convergent evolution will absolutely reduce deaths. Tesla claims a statistical advantage with their speciously tested technology.
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#6It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
boggles my mind that people who know the first thing about software can actually think that self driving cars are viable technology
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#7It seems somewhat silly to only talk about the negative aspects of cars. What about all the benefits?
If you stop and think about it, cars are truly revolutionary. Even many low income people can buy a machine that will travel 50 miles (at 70 mph) on a gallon of liquid that costs $3.
It not only allows individuals the freedom to travel, vehicles power a massive transportation network that brings food to our tables and a ton of consumer goods to our local stores.
I would argue the automobile is one of the greatest technological inventions of the past 200 years.
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#8Not by itself; but if the high-speed crash rate drops to almost nothing we can make cars much lighter and lower; reverse the SUV arms-race that has made the streets more deadly than ever.
> if the high-speed crash rate drops to almost nothing
The high-speed crash rate is almost nothing - statistically speaking.
Most accidents are on city streets at relatively low speeds.
What more, statistically speaking for number of miles driven, we already have a near-zero rate of fatalities. Can it be better? Sure, but it will never be entirely zero, even with full automation for all road vehicles.
> reverse the SUV arms-race
The SUV fascination is not driven by some desire to have a safer vehicle either...
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#9It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
It may lower to death toll of avoidable accidents. The author isn't wrong that tons of metal moving at any speed can be absolutely fatal.
Practically anything “can be fatal”. If you argue in tautologies you’re never wrong, but you also never actually say anything.
Re: Cars Are Death Machines. Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That
#10It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
boggles my mind that people who know the first thing about software can actually think that self driving cars are viable technology
Software technology isn’t static, most of us are only arguing about when, not if.