> That you are willing to let other people die for the sake of increasing your convenience isn't very compelling.
That's how we got the original automobile, and that's been a great benefit to the human experience.
Everything is costs and benefits. In exchange for reducing the amount of very dangerous manual driving that people do, we plug in autonomous technology that's very good, but not perfect. It still saves lives overall.
This idea that autonomous must be perfect or
you're a murderer --- it's simplistic and counterproductive, and following this kind of absolutist thinking guarantees that we'll never get autonomous technology and that people will continue to slaughter each other with manually-driven vehicles.
Taking an absolute stance against dangerous technology might seem good at first, but in the long run, it increases the sum of human misery.
It's perfectionism, not autonomous, that's killing people every day.
That's how we got the original automobile, and that's been a great benefit to the human experience.
Everything is costs and benefits. In exchange for reducing the amount of very dangerous manual driving that people do, we plug in autonomous technology that's very good, but not perfect. It still saves lives overall.
This idea that autonomous must be perfect or you're a murderer --- it's simplistic and counterproductive, and following this kind of absolutist thinking guarantees that we'll never get autonomous technology and that people will continue to slaughter each other with manually-driven vehicles.
Taking an absolute stance against dangerous technology might seem good at first, but in the long run, it increases the sum of human misery.
It's perfectionism, not autonomous, that's killing people every day.