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by grogenaut 3455 days ago
My knife works pretty well. As does my blanket.
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Not to take this into 'silly analogy' territory, but I have many knives that dull after two weeks of use and others that stay sharp much longer; some that work great to fillet fish and some that I can pry a screw out of an oak log with anf be fine; but none that can do both.

And I have blankets that I sleep great under in winter and summer and others that make me wake up in a puddle of sweat. And some I take camping and others that are very comfortable but very delicate.

So no I wouldn't say that anything I own works 100% of the time. Some work more than others, and good stuff generally works in several situations (or not, when it's optimized for one use case) - but overall, if your threshold for success is 'pretty well', then any self driving tech that isn't worse than humans would be good enough.

But the thing you missed is that having to have 50 different knives is a benefit :)
Yes, that's very true, but having to have 50 blankets isn't :)
your SO isn't a quilter are they?
Even if she were, I'm hard pressed to believe I'd consider the outcome a good thing...