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If I understand you correctly, you're arguing that having machines making mistakes maybe ok if it's statistically less likely to happen than humans?


I'm asking the question of how common it is. If I understand you correctly, self-driving should be banned if there's 1 error?


It should be banned without the ability to know ahead of time it is trustworthy within it's intended operating envelope. Said operating envelope should be clearly, and unambiguously explicable to a lay person.

Neither of those conditions are the case. I'd appreciate it if people would stop trying to use statistics to gove an unproven system being tested with a fundamentally unsafe methodology with minimal experimental controls a free pass.


No, I was just trying to work out what you were saying.

I do however think that it's wrong, why? Because human error is enough to deal with, couple this with now AI error. It makes society, crash investigation, designing roads way way more complicated.

Maybe if we ban human drivers 100% and optimize for cars then it would be a good idea. I just can't see cars not needing supervision for a very long time.

I doubt people are going to buy cars that might kill them by making "mistakes". We will see but I think it's going to be a hard sell. People can easily accept their own mistakes. A computer though?


We actually do that with many industries where such errors result in loss of human life. Entire plane fleets being grounded and things like that.


They waited until two crashed before they grounded 737MAX. Two too many. They already knew.


"Something like this is already being done" is not much of an argument. People do a lot of stupid things.


There’s a built in autoban feature, one head on collision with a train activates it.

Unfortunately it sucks for all the innocent people on the train.




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