Reply to post: Re: Good grief

Tesla's big news today:
sudo killall -9 Autopilot

pop_corn

Re: Good grief

Agreed. All this bleating about "autopilot" not being perfectly safe is completely missing the point.

Let's just say it: people will die in Tesla's that are on "autopilot", probably each and every year from now. There'll be a steady stream of news stories announcing it and bleating about it. But that's not the point.

LESS people will die that would have done. That's the point! Eventually Tesla deaths will be common, just like Ford deaths, Toyota deaths, BMW deaths etc etc, and the news outlets will get bored of running the same old story.

Do you think the papers of the day weren't scattered with "Ford Model T Driver Dies in Crash!" headlines? Of course they were, now we're just used to it because it happens every day, well not the "Model T" bit. ;)

It's the same argument for Fracking. Fracking will never be 100% safe and environmentally sound... just like every other form of power generation. It just has to be better than what we've got at the moment.

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