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by Phlarp 3839 days ago
Yes, what if, of the thousands of people that will die today [1](and tomorrow and the next day and the next...) in traffic accidents, one single sprained ankle or whiplashed neck was caused by, gasp, a computer.

Your faux ethical hacking outrage is thinly veiled and entirely misdirected.

[1]http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...

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Huh? If he had skipped the computer and just taken a bunch of phencyclidine before getting behind the wheel, couldn't have deployed the same derisive dismissal about arguments that people shouldn't drive impaired by phencyclidine? Not many people are going to die today because of PCP either!