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If I were a professional athlete I would feel in the right to refuse to shake the hand of an athlete coming from a country proven to have a state-sponsored doping program significant enough to warrant that country’s flag being banned from the Olympics long before this war.

Clearly this was about the war, but let’s not pretend sportsmanship was intact before this handshake debacle came to be.

I agree, these systems are fundamentally a very good thing and the more cars they’re in, the safer we are on the road.

I just don’t think they’ll be substituting human beings at the wheel of cars in the near future, and I personally think it’s not so good of an idea to frame it like that.
I mean, we’ve only automated some, not all metros all over the world, and no passenger trains at all. If we haven’t figured that out yet, I can’t see how self-driving cars are supposedly just around the corner.

Sure we’re talking about very few deaths, but it still is a design flaw, as it has trouble recognizing a specific kind of motorcycle. I would say that makes it more of a bug that hasn’t been patched out rather than a mere statistical error, but I am not well versed in actual software development so someone else might come up with a better analysis.

As for human input, I agree, this is a very different case from, let’s say, an experimental self-driving car. However I still believe Tesla’s decisions play a part, for example the naming scheme they chose, autopilot rather than assisted driving or some other admittedly less enticing name.

Of course one might say that people with a car license should be able to see through basic marketing, but it might nonetheless influence people’s behaviour, even if just subconsciously.

I suppose he is betting on the public accepting these deaths as non-important glitches, and no regulation coming for Tesla. So in a very cynical sense, I suppose this profit gamble is playing out for Musk.

However, how come other car manufacturers using lidar aren’t making a point out of this? It can’t be out of good will, surely.