• Jesse@aus.social
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    11 months ago

    @dudewitbow @JetpackJackson my concern with robo-taxises is specifically that they’re not good at the edge cases. This means there will be a push to remove those edge cases, to simplify streets to match the abilities of the robo-taxises. We start to design our cities for the limitations of some software

    • Dudewitbow
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      11 months ago

      We already live in a world of edge cases. Because of the existing design of needing to have a car to get around, we have incidents like this:

      https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/los-angeles-elderly-driver-kills-woman-after-plowing-car-into-dealership/

      Which only exist because of the necessity to drive in the first place. This is a edge case where a human driver is arguably more dangerous to society than yhe autonomous driver, and only happened because some old people require a car to get around from their homes due to either lack of ability or unwillingness to move, and poor public transportation.

    • JetpackJackson@feddit.deOP
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      11 months ago

      Oh true, I didn’t think of that. Edge cases, I mean. I’m just always so nervous about these autonomous things that I just kinda marked it down as generally a bad thing, but now that I’m reading what others have commented, it does seem like there are more pros that I haven’t seen or thought about. So thanks for that.

      (Also I noticed that you tried to ping me by mentioning me but I didn’t get a ping, is that a kbin thing?)