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First of all fuck google, not just for this but for all the dumb crap they pull. They don’t get a pass out of some nonsensical appeal to authority. Second, If “large gamble” involves killing things then they shouldn’t be gambling. It doesn’t matter if it was a cat, bird, person, whatever. If autonomous cars are supposed to be so much better than human drivers then they need to figure this out. Most people never kill anything while driving.

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In aggregate, Google cars have killed far less fewer things than drivers per mile driven. That includes cats. Your stance leads would lead to more lives being lost. But fuck google, amirite?

These people will gladly watch human driven cars continue to run over children as long as Google doesn't get to make any money.

Last year, in SF, an old woman driving a big SUV took out an entire family of four that was WAITING AT A BUS STOP. On the SIDEWALK.

She hasn't gone to jail. She hasn't really paid any fine. The neighborhood carefully formed the street renovation committee so that the family that died would have been excluded, but the driver that killed them would have a seat if she wanted it.

When they rant about how unfair it is to let a company test a robotaxi I can't help but feel they'd also look at this problem and say NBD.

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