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LinkPizza posted...
I know you can build on from parts from catalogues. So, that obviously wasn't what I was talking about...

You were talking about building once of these devices yourself. You claimed you could build and maintain a car from spare parts but not a self-checkout. Nothing about that postulate states that parts *must* come from a junkyard.

So yes, you are wrong and I believe you are well aware of that, especially as you've now admitted that you *can* build a self-checkout from a catalogue. Thanks for playing.

LinkPizza posted...
Either way, I disagree.

About what?

Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this.

LinkPizza posted...
As for the scenario, it could easily happen. I don't see how anyone could think otherwise... It's literally something that can happen.

Assuming this is still your bizarre fantasy scenario about self-driving cars getting in a mass-swerve to avoid an obstacle, you have yet to explain how humans would perform better in the same situation and have, in fact, accepted several times that the exact same scenario would be just as likely to occur with human drivers, likely with a worse end result.

In other words, even if we accept that this scenario could "easily" happen (it can't, unless you're using a very liberal definition of the word "easily"), it's not a mark against self-driving cars, since they would still perform better than human drivers in this scenario.

LinkPizza posted...
It's still a big amount of people, but only because they are so many accidents.

Yep - and you know what will bring that accident rate way down?

Self-driving cars.

LinkPizza posted...
And again, because it hasn't happened yet, nobody can literally know if it'll be worse that with humans.

And nobody can know that there isn't a teapot in orbit around Earth.

We can, however, make predictions based on the data we have, all of which suggests that self-driving cars will be orders of magnitude safer than humans, with amplifying effects the more self-driving cars are on the road.

LinkPizza posted...
We can only know that after hey come out... You can say they will be better all you want. We still don't have any proof that they actually will be better... or if it'll be better at avoiding anything...

They are out; they are better. This is simple fact.

LinkPizza posted...
Mayhem could break loose as soon as too many, or even just a lot, are on the road.

Or the self-driving cars could usher in a utopia where no one ever dies in a car crash again.

Both of those events are about equally likely. Which is to say, not at all, but continue to hide behind your, "It's still totally possible!" non-defence if it makes you feel better.

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