• Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    And they always will. You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases. If we replaced every single car on US roads with one driven by AI - proven to be 10 times better a driver than a human - that would still mean 4,000 people getting killed by them each year. That, however, doesn’t mean we should go back to human drivers and 40,000 people killed annually.

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      4 hours ago

      You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases.

      By that logic…

      We should really be investing in trains and buses, not cars of any type.

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        3 hours ago

        I think your logic is flawed. The discussion is about a specific form of transportation. By your own logic, you should be suggesting that people fly everywhere.

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          55 minutes ago

          Yes. AI human transformation drones make far more sense. Much easier to avoid things because airspace can be controlled. Just need to figure out how to do efficiently that the ride is more than 5 minutes.

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          For long distance maybe, but immediately saying we should all fly everywhere because it has the fewest deaths per passenger mile would really not be looking at the big picture.

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        4 hours ago

        That’s Tesla, not Waymo. Tesla’s hardware is shit and does not even include lidar. You can’t judge the entire industry by the worst example.

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          New HW4 Teslas do in fact include a front-facing radar, but it’s currently only used for collecting data - not for FSD.

          Still, gotta give them credit for getting by with vision-only quite well. I don’t personally see any practical reason why you absolutely must include LiDAR. We already know driving relatively safely with vision only is possible - all the best drivers in the world do it.

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        5 hours ago

        Tesla made the idiotic decision to rely entirely on cameras, waymo used lidar and other sensors to augment vision.