Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

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Emphasis goes on “even though”.

As in “At GM we’re so benevolent that we’re doing a software update even though we think this will only kill someone every 10m miles (which we consider an acceptable murder rate for our cars)”.

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You missed the part where this was specifically about their car dragging the person for 20ft after the crash and pinning them under the wheel?

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No one was killed in the accident they are stating the rate of.

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Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.

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Yeah but equally you could argue that if all cars were self-driving this accident wouldn’t have happened. It involved a human making a mistake first.

I kind of feel like we’re getting the wrong takeaway from self driving cars.

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