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jonknee
on April 5, 2018
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Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fa...
Tens of thousands of people are killed every year[1] in just the United States, humans are
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at driving. If autonomous vehicles are able to make driving as safe as flying it will be like curing breast cancer in terms of lives saved.
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http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/Fatality-estimates-Jun...
quotemstr
on April 5, 2018
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There are hundreds of millions of people in the US. Most of them drive. Is a few tens of thousands fatalities that bad in an absolute sense?
jonknee
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Are you serious? Yes, a stadium full of people dying every year is "that bad" in an absolute sense.
quotemstr
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By what metric? You're leaving out any sense of proportion.
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[1] http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/Fatality-estimates-Jun...