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Old 05-28-2015, 12:13 PM   #137
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101 View Post
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%?
I never stated the goal wouldn't be 100% reliability. But every tech has a starting point. So do you keep them off the road entirely or star a large scale roll out while there are still kinks but at the same time way safer then the alternative?
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