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by BigJeffeRonaldo 3448 days ago
I don't care about self-driving cars until car company CEOs have their kids riding in them. Until then, I am not interested in taking the risk of testing their engineering.
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You point is sound that companies who produce faulty driverless cars take the upside of them after they socialize the losses from them.

Point 229 in Hammurabi's code: [229] If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

or to put it in your words. CEOs (or their kids) must drive around in driverless cars before patrons pay for them.

> I view this as programmers and such wanting to sacrifice the lives of plebs

That's beyond uncharitable. Please don't post inflammatory, unsubstantive comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html