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I once heard a comedian say 'show me the bodies' in response to the safety of nuclear energy. I just love the pragmatic and blunt way of looking at a perceived threat.

So: show me the bodies.




Maybe it wasn't clear, but 'show me the bodies' implies the onus to demonstrate mass fatalities, not dozens after billions of Autopilot miles. The bodies just don't exist.

To be clear, I don't think either of us are right or wrong. We have different risk profiles. Telsa reports one crash per 7.5M miles of Autopilot (and again, most of these recorded incidents have operator errors, but I'm happy to keep them in the count). That is absolutely within a threshold I would accept for this level of advancement in technology and safety.


Autopilot != FSD. FSD’s numbers are not comparable because they exclude minor crashes.




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