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This is a moral issue. It’s only possible to have a non-flamey moral discussion if people trust each other and share some sort of moral operating system in common.

I am offended, and I think we all should be, at the way self-driving bros characterize this issue as “pro-life” (because self-driving cars that work would save lives) while ignoring that they are inherently irresponsible (because they force human drivers to interact with and adapt to the socially incompetent avatars of those tech bros in a public space).

Driving is a social act. AI cannot be made to be socially competent or to have a social status. Without that, any problem caused by self-driving cars will create rage among the humans it interacts with. They are rolling arrogance-mobiles.

Self-driving cars could work only if human drivers are outlawed and pedestrians banned and all roads standardized. And if you do all that, there is still a problem: you’ve just spent a shit ton of money to solve a tiny problem.

Solve global warming instead.