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A little while back, I saw the following tweet:
I can print mostly. My wifi works often. The Xbox usually recognises me. Siri sometimes works. But my self driving car will be *perfect*.
The tweet has since been deleted, so I won't name the author, but it's a thought-provoking idea. At first, I agreed with it. I'm a programmer and know full well just how shoddy is 99.9% of the code we all write. The idea that I would put my life in the hands of a coder like myself is a bit worrying.
[...] The reality is that self-driving cars don't need to be perfect. They just need to be better than the alternative: human-driven cars. And that is a much lower bar, as human beings are remarkably bad at driving.
[...] Self-driving cars don't get tired. They don't get drunk. They don't get distracted by friends or a crying baby. They don't look away from the road to send a text message. They don't speed, tailgate, brake too late, forget to show a blinker, drive too fast in bad weather, run red lights, race other cars at red lights, or miss exits. Self-driving cars aren't going to be perfect, but they will be a hell of a lot better than you and me.
Related: The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @07:48AM
As a narcissistic yuppie cocksucker, I need to know that people whose existence I disapprove of will not be using self-driving cars. Ever. You see, I recently found myself in need of public transit after I got totally shitfaced at a bar, and you would not believe the fucking stench of the piss soaked penniless scum who use public transit at 2:30 in the morning. Is there some way automation can ensure that these undesirables will be denied existence in our perfect society?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday January 04 2016, @07:50AM
Sure: an automated credit check done when you give Uber your credit card number and other details.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @07:56AM
So insightful you are, for confirming that real life already is a perfect society for narcissistic yuppie cocksuckers.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 04 2016, @08:18AM
Sign in, and you can mod me up too instead of praising me.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @08:01AM
and you would not believe the fucking stench of the piss soaked penniless scum who use public transit at 2:30 in the morning.
If you can't stand the urine, stay out of the gutter! Mirror, you are, dear Ethanol_Fueled! Do not the self sniff, for it is vile. Perhaps if sober you stayed, less pissed upon yourself be would you.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2016, @09:23AM
Perhaps you should've used a toilet instead of pissing yourself on a bus.
(Score: 2) by pgc on Monday January 04 2016, @02:47PM
Yeah, and you were smelling like roses of course. No alcohol stench around you whatsoever.