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GM recalled almost 30 million cars with those ignition switches. You're 1.5x more likely to die using Autopilot than one of them.
by Aeronwen 5y ago
GM recalled almost 30 million cars with those ignition switches. You're 1.5x more likely to die using Autopilot than one of them.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI still like those odds! As the saying goes, “I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.” I’ll take my chances in a Tesla over a legacy automaker.
- yellow_lead 5y agoMore power to you but how do you feel about endangering others around you?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI believe the risk is reasonable compared to your average human being. Software doesn’t get tired or distracted, and I would not use Tesla self driving features if it would put others at an unreasonable level of risk.
- sifar 5y ago>> Software doesn’t get tired or distracted It just has a lot of corner cases, untested even. This blind trust in SW and by extension, technology, is really exasperating. Really curious, how would you quantify the reasonabl risk ? Should the risk be based on number of fatalities or on the number of potential fatalities that were averted ? The data that you point to is about fatal crashes that made the news. What about all the cases that the SW malfunctioned and had a potential to be fatal ? Only tesla has that data or perhaps even they may not.