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by ghostly_s 2887 days ago
It certainly isn't responsible. But it's their only moonshot route to profitability, so innocent lives be damned.
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Did you know that 1.3 MILLION people die in car accidents on a yearly basis? There are extremely good reasons to believe that a mature, self-driving car industry will lower that figure by orders of magnitude.

It is a shame that there have been a few accidents now that the technology is in its infancy, but it is very short-sighted to wish that Uber halts its experiments and delays the technology from taking off.