Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Before allowing driverless cars in the road, you need to create the legal environment where the laws apply to them.

It's a bit of work, and Musk won't like the delays, but there's a correct and incorrect way around to get those two things done.

[–]DesertOfMirrors 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Part of me wants to see enough people get killed that the pitchforks come out and driverless cars become a thing of the past. But only part of me.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Deiverless cars will never kill more people than human drivers. That makes it extremely unlikely that the former will get banned. Though I'm sure the media could turn public opinion against self driving cars using those accidents, it would never hold up in court.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The "tech" companies that don't comprehend their tech are left to kill whoever they want, because of no other "reason" than money.

Driverless cars won't work (as in safer than good drivers), because of an extremely long tail of problems.

AFAIK, the driverless tech companies haven't even disclosed what exactly their system is supposed to do in a large variety of scenarios. All they can say is that the loss function of their latest black box is returning a smaller value on their training set, which means exactly nothing.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Safer than good drivers" is the no true scotsman fallacy. They are already better than human drivers.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Since they still get stuck, they are not better than human drivers.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Human drivers do increadibly stupid things. Better to "get stuck" than fuck everything up.