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by 48terry 12 days ago
I was assured last week that things like this are fine and we should be responsible adults by settling for "good enough" when it comes to self-driving cars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226864

2 comments

It's absolutely not fine.

But I would note that we are already settling for "good enough" by letting those responsible adults cause 6 million accidents and 40,000 deaths.

Tesla's Autopilot is worse. But people aren't great.

I hold out a tiny modicum of hope that the cars will get better. If not Elmo's version, then somebody's. Because the people are not getting better, and are arguably getting worse.

Yeah but that was Waymo. This time it’s Tesla.
Exactly. Waymo is already much better at driving than Tesla will ever be. They deserve a pass for actually moving the technology forward.