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by puttycat 162 days ago
> Humans drive that way all the time.

Why do we hold calculators to such high bars? Humans make calculation mistakes all the time.

Why do we hold banking software to such high bars? People forget where they put their change all the time. Etc etc.

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Tens of thousands of humans kill each other every year on the roads in the US alone. So these analogies are completely bankrupt.
You mean to say (emotively) that humans drive that way all the time?
No, I'm saying (factually) that demanding perfection from self-driving cars costs lives.