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"Adequate" is an interesting choice of a word when describing something's safety record.

Adequate to many is “Kills fewer people than the average human driver.”

And yet, the average driver kills 0 people. It’s in the far margins where deaths occur - a fraction of a fraction of a percent.

This is in comparison to the arguably singular entity “Tesla Autopilot” which has already killed several.

Tesla autopilot replaces a lot more than one human driver, so this is a mathematically nonsensical argument.

So does a bus driver. Or a pilot. Or an engineer.

And we hold them responsible for the humans in their care.

We don't. 42K people are killed in the US every year in automobile accidents. Yet humans are allowed to keep driving and killing people despite their massive flaws.

Individual humans have their license revoked and sometimes even face manslaughter charges if they cause too much death on the road. FSD is like one mind in control of an entire fleet. It's mistakes are amplified relative to a lone human

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