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• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.

  Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

  Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.

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• massacre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  pretty sure Waymo is cool with not taking safety seriously over profits though

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We already accept 3,400 deaths per day from human drivers.

    If autonomous vehicles were to cause one death ever, would they still not be worth pursuing?

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    • massacre@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I never said that, nor implied it. I certainly personally think it’s worth pursuit. I was pointing out Waymo was being given a bit of a pass there, and want to remind folks that profit incidentive that ignores or downplays human risk is not at all appealing and shouldn’t be given a free pass.

      If Waymo can drive and “only” kills 1% of the equivalent per human miles driven, it’s certainly better right? But given that it’s a machine with a company that has a profit motive behind it, it’s goals need to be lofty. Why not set the bar at zero human deaths as a goal post and work from there? As soon as you say a single death is acceptable, it changes how everyone approaches it and turns into “well, is a second death acceptable?” and that’s going to quickly devolve into “what is an acceptable level of death for our profit margin.” To be clear, I’m arguing the answer should always be NONE. The alternative is a slippery slope, so I don’t want to give anyone a pass.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The goal is zero, at least stated by some of their competitors. People are just getting bent out of shape when faced with the reality that, inevitably, it’ll happen. Due to people being dumb and panicky and terwsistant to change, every implementation needs to demonstrate orders of magnitude more safety than human drivers in order to gain acceptance. This is why rogue companies like Tesla, and compilations of trash like this post, are making the industry look bad.

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• possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  taking a ride from RIP Cruise sounds like a fanfuckingtastic way to die

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They didn’t kill the woman, just ran her over and dragged her twenty feet, a mercifully short distance given that the vehicle never detected her and was already about to pull over.

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