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"Adequate" is an interesting choice of a word when describing something's safety record.
by VectorLock 3y ago
"Adequate" is an interesting choice of a word when describing something's safety record.
- falcolas 3y agoAdequate 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.
- fallingknife 3y agoTesla autopilot replaces a lot more than one human driver, so this is a mathematically nonsensical argument.
- falcolas 3y agoSo does a bus driver. Or a pilot. Or an engineer. And we hold them responsible for the humans in their care.
- belltaco 3y agoWe 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.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIndividual 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