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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Uber's (and all the rest of the Silicon Valley illegal taxi racket) entire business model is "exploit humans until we invent Johnnycabs"

I think the only thing keeping them from going full auto right now is that humans keep accepting shittier and shittier conditions in order to keep the robopocalypse at bay.

I don't really like automated cars because I don't think they're safe, either for the passengers (who have at least accepted what they're getting into) or pedestrians (who have not), but I don't think that's ever slowed the "march of progress" before now.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Self driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to be better than humans. Which is not the highest of bars.

[–] dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I would argue they are safe, in fact they are too safe, so safe that if their program gets confused it will just stop in the middle of an intersection and not move because it's 'not safe'.

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