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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that a thing most people do and some for hours daily has a large effect shouldn’t be surprising

Oh wow, what good reasoning!

Let's all take up smoking cigarettes indoors all day, it's incredibly dangerous and is killing mass numbers of people on a literal daily basis, but that's fine because everyone's doing it, so the effect shouldn't be surprising, so that makes it ok and not worth addressing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's not the argument I'm making. What I'm saying is that if you only take the raw numbers for a given event into account, and don't consider the population of the event, then you can make any event affecting a large population look like an urgent affair when it's not so urgent

Human driven cars should be replaced with automation (or even better, automated public transportation) as soon as it's viable. It's not yet, so we should not rush corporations to put their unsafe vehicles on the street. Because then the only thing you'll rush is transforming human driver fatalities into robotic driver fatalities, and you never know how worse things can get

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

and don't consider the population of the event, then you can make any event affecting a large population look like an urgent affair when it's not so urgent

How is this different from my cigarettes analogy? You're just arguing it's not a big deal that hundreds of people are dying on a daily basis, because a lot of people drive.

rushing for corporations to put their unsafe vehicles on the street should not be rushed

Fully agreed.

Human driven cars should be replaced with automation (or even better, automated public transportation) as soon as it's viable. It's not yet

Except that it is. Waymo already has a safer per mile rating than human drivers.