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Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant

• betolink 11y ago
  It should say "A programmer's mistake kills a person"
  • lolsal 11y ago
    Why?
    • harshreality 11y ago
      Because the automation/robot that killed the worker is not capable of intention or even agency. "Baseball kills sportsgoer." "Golf ball kills jogger." "Mailbox kills commuter." These are sensationalist headlines that don't really mean anything. The story is in the "why".
• DevPad 11y ago
  Singularity, the beginning.
  • betolink 11y ago
    Just got the name of the worker: John Connor
• 11thEarlOfMar 11y ago
  This is Hacker News. We know the difference between robotics and automation. Industrial automation such as this has been killing absent minded technicians for years, as early as 1979: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301,87702&dq=flat-rock+williams+robot&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bu8F...