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Originally Posted by Dan02
It wouldn't need to be as reliable as airplanes to save potentially millions of lives. 1.24 million people died in car crashes in 2010 alpine. If self driving cars could reduce that 90% would you selfishly resist the change just because you are more comfortable being in control?
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Sadly this is a concept I don't agree with, the one of "Good Enough". As as designer, I've always gone with the idea of "If a persons life is at risk if this thing fails, then it damn well better work 99.999% of the time". Unfortunately risk vs monetary reward was invented and companies like GM risk peoples lives to make money.
If a major point of self driving cars is to save lives, then why not make them reliable enough so you decrease that number further to 99.99%?