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> but when a self-driving car does, murderbot outrage makes frontpage news all over the world. It's not "fair" that this is the case,

It is exactly fair - if a drunk guy in Australia is driving one car. If he hits a child, that has no relevance to my life in EU. He will be arrested and dealt with.

But Tesla autopilot drives millions if cars. It if hits a child in Australia, it does not get arrested. Its also gonna drive over my children in EU.

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> Its also gonna drive over my children in EU.

a false equivalency.

The same type of bozo that reverses into a child also exists in europe.

Himans have separate brains. The Aitopilot runs same code.

If autopilot has error in the code that makes it drive off cliffs, that affects made pople.

This is the advantage of self driving. If there is an error it gets fixed for all cars in the fleet. Humans have bugs - we get bored, we get distracted, we get angry, we thrill seek, etc - and we’ll never fix our bugs. Nor should we. Any technology that requires humans to be perfect all the time to be safe is an inhuman technology. I think people will look back at fully human drive cars, and the death rate we tolerate from it, with disbelief.

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