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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(www.theguardian.com)

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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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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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What’s acceptable?

Every 50 million? 100 million?

It will never be perfect, and there will never be no deaths at all, so if there is no acceptable limit you may as well ban self driving car research right now.

The rate of pedestrians killed in 2021 was approximately 1 in every 25,000,000 miles driven manually (8000 deaths and 203 billion miles travelled collectively. Should that be the minimum target?

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Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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The acceptable number is zero. For any type of vehicle.

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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Then we best ban all vehicles

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DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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Might as well ban people outright

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Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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Ok. If you really think that is the only way to improve the situation, I’m on board.

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Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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It really could be zero for pedestrians if we spent the money to ensure no human and vehicle would ever share the same space. It is less about how many humans/miles driven and more about how many humans/cost to avoid sadly.

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Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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It really could be zero for pedestrians if we spent the money to ensure no human and vehicle would ever share the same space. It is less about how many humans/miles driven and more about how many humans/cost to avoid sadly.

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Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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It really could be zero for pedestrians if we spent the money to ensure no human and vehicle would ever share the same space. It is less about how many humans/miles driven and more about how many humans/cost to avoid sadly.

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wahming@monyet.cc
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So, no human driven cars, buses, trains, planes or anything else, then?

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sugartits@lemmy.world
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And literally no people leaving the house at all.

Have been unfortunate incidents of pedestrians accidentally striking other pedestrians which then result in heart attacks or suchlike, which then results in death.

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baatliwala@lemmy.world
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We aren’t talking about your IQ here, so try to follow along yeah?

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