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And this is how David continuous to beat Goliath.

No, this is how people die.

The agile startup mentality is great until you try to apply it to domains that are literally life-and-death.

People die in a lot of other ways too. This is favoring the death I cause over the death a machine does.

http://wfdd.org/post/why-we-judge-algorithmic-mistakes-more-...

Of course. I should clarify that I fully support self-driving cars. I've done research in the area, and I'm a big believer in their promise.

In fact, that's why I'm so aghast at these guys. They're (at best) delivering a 50% solution that will require human intervention. But their marketing strongly implies that you will be able to divert your attention from the road. A single bad self-driving implementation will poison the well for many years.

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