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Originally Posted by Royal Tiger
The race to be the most accommodating to the ignorant and lazy continues with vigor.
I have asked this simple question a dozen times, and yet no one has answered it. Why? Why has millions of dollars and man hours been used for things like “Super Cruise”?
Ahh yes, the oh so noble rush to autonomous cars so blind people can be driven around. How many cars is that? There are already things like Uber to handle the other idea put forth like drunk drivers. So all that development costs gets passed to us to once again reward those who shun personal responsibility. Awesome.
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Good to know that its actually for blind people who don't want a taxi.
Here I thought the goal of autonomous cars was to prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year (in the United States alone) and millions more injuried. Even ignoring the tragedy of death, look at it from an economic perspective. Every year, tens of billions (hundreds?) are spent on treating the injured. Billions more are lost due to disability, either temporary or permanent. There's probably a few billion spent just replacing cars that have been totalled. If autonomous cars could simply halve the accident rate, and then diminish the severity for those that were unavoidable (death becomes serious injury, minor injuries become nothing) it would be a huge economic boom.
But sure ... the goal is to make people lazy.