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by wnkrshm 1701 days ago
The social acceptance of many autonomous applications hinge on accepting that someone was hurt or killed in a way that was trivial to prevent for a human in control.

The other side of this is that a machine may prevent other accidents that a human cannot prevent. As long as our machines aren't truly superhuman we will have to find an optimal middle-ground (between human and machine control).