Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

  • great_site_not@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, but a car running over a woman, dragging her twenty feet and parking on top of her, could easily have killed her.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah but equally you could argue that if all cars were self-driving this accident wouldn’t have happened. It involved a human making a mistake first.

      I kind of feel like we’re getting the wrong takeaway from self driving cars.

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        8 months ago

        What kind of mistake can a pedestrian make to cause a self-driving car run over them, and how does making more cars self-driving prevent that mistake?