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That is a standard that the self-driving industry likes to promulgate, I'm guessing because it's rhetorically powerful and because it suits them.

is it accepted as a standard by any professionals? Why or why not?

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I'm not in the industry, though I did briefly work on a self-driving car in grad school back in 2009.

One simple and obvious reason for this standard is that it optimizes for human safety.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you are in the industry. I meant they've normalized it to a large degree.

I'm not who you were originally replying to so I definitely didn't think you were implying thing about me (I also didn't think you were implying anything about the person you were replying to). I was just qualifying my opinion on the safer-than-a-human standard as a non-industry one.

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