(January 15, 2019 at 1:16 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(January 15, 2019 at 12:17 pm)Mr.Obvious Wrote: So it might work for 500 years before an emp blasts all selfdriving cars to smithereens. Killing a million people trapped in deathmobiles in an instant. If for each year in those 500 years 10.000 people die less because the computer does it better than THE human mind; isn't that worth THE one million toll?
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Misunderstood.
My bad, understand your point now.
But still; it's just a matter of checking up on THE systems and making those checkups required by law, isn't it?
Ever known someone to scam an emissions testing??
Those systems are laughably simplistic compared to the AI systems now being used - and you can expect future systems to be more complex, and more expensive. You can count on the costs of maintenance of such equipment being a major part of the expenditures for that vehicle.
Count on people thinking - "Can I get by without it"???
Count on people dying because of new technologies? And accompagnying neglect? Sure. But like how a seatbelt might choke THE occasional person, their addition saves lives. And THE introduction of boilers had poisoned countless people, but also saves many developing deadly pnumonia and freezing of to death.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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