• demonsword@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yeah it’ll probably cost the lifes of some number of people

    Easy to say when those lives doesn’t include yours or anyone you love/care about.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      How could anyone know that? It just as well might.

      It’s a fallacy to think we can build a perfect world where all bad things can be avoided. With all new technology comes downsides. We’re already losing 80+ a day in the US alone because we don’t have self driving cars. It’s far more likely for someone close to me to get killed by a human driver.

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      6 months ago

      So you’d rather more people die in avoidable traffic accidents because we weren’t allowed to develop this technology?

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        6 months ago

        I’d rather have people avoiding using cars at all, adopting mass transit solutions instead.

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          5 months ago

          Great that’s admirable, but that isn’t going to happen because it doesn’t work for most people and there is no political capital to make it happen, so what then?