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TeMPOraLyesterday at 4:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

The promise of self-driving cars being safer than human drivers is also kind of the whole selling point of the technology.


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myrmidonyesterday at 5:40 PM

What? No? The main selling point is eliminating costs for a human driver (by enabling people to safely do other things from their car, like answering emails or doomscrolling, or via robotaxis).

micromacrofootyesterday at 5:57 PM

Sure, but the companies building them are just shoving billions of dollars into their ears so they don't have to answer "who's responsible when it kills someone?"

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