• upstream@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I like how you just keep on talking about what we all agree on.

    Would you like to imagine how you would argue if the first sentence you wrote was true?

    That’s when the interesting scenarios start showing up, including how humans are ready to grab the pitchforks when an automated system kills someone, but when humans do it 10x more it’s perfectly fine.

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      1 year ago

      NO, a human driving a car and hitting another person is NOT perfectly fine.

      People just didn’t make a big fuse about them because our society already have the institutions to deal with this kind of situation.

      The driver would be punished according to the legal institution. If it is a deliberate murder they would go to court and be trailed.

      Local media will also make sure the culprit would be punished socially. Everyone in town will know who hit our neighbor.

      On the other hand, the responsibility of driver-less vehicles are not well defined yet. Is the engineer responsible? Is the programmer responsible? Is the CEO of the manufacturer responsible?

      This is why these incidents receive so much outcry.