[devy]

Yet, Robots and automated machines (not the autonomous vehicles) still killed/injured a few dozen people since 1984 according to U.S. Department of Labor. [1]

[1]: https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/AccidentSearch.search?acc_keyw...

Worldwide stats will be far more than that. We've accepted it, haven't we?

[nsxwolf]

They're freak accidents. We wouldn't tolerate deaths day in and day out to the tune of 40,200 in the US in 2016.

..too lazy to find and paste stat from mobile

[devy]

You said we won't accept those deaths "even in the single digit", not 40k+ deaths, which is a few orders of magnitude higher.

Also I don't understand why we would accept freak accidents but not other accidents? An accdient is an accident. A death is tragic regardless what caused it.

[nsxwolf]

We don't accept the robot deaths. Any time one happens people scramble to "make sure this never happens again". When someone dies in a car accident, we yawn.