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0 pointsmoduspol3y ago0 comments

The current tech is irrelevant. It is not safer than a human driver, but that's not relevant.

If regulation delays the day in the future that it is safer than human drivers and that human drivers are replaced, then it is costing lives. And it would.

The only way it wouldn't is if the regulation saves more lives in the meantime than would have been saved by having self-driving cars ubiquitous sooner, but that's tough to argue when we're already losing 3,700 per day.

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watwut3y ago

The excess people killed by self driving cars matter too. Self driving is more dangerous until it is not and it is actual task of regulators to delay it until then.

And if regulators won't act, it will never be safe, because it is cheaper to produce unsafe products. It earns more to lie about safety of a product, unless you have functional regulations.

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watwut3y ago

The excess people killed by self driving cars matter too. Self driving is more dangerous until it is not and it is actual task of regulators to delay it until then.

And if regulators won't act, it will never be safe, because it is cheaper to produce unsafe products. It earns more to lie about safety of a product, unless you have functional regulations.

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