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Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. (fuelarc.com)
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I have no confidence that Tesla will fix this before the planned Robo-Taxi rollout in Austin in 2 weeks.

After all, they haven't fixed it in the last 9 years that self-driving Teslas have been on the road.

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[–] dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe 95 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

They know these things are going to kill people; it's just inevitable.

Engineers are well aware of there being a cost-benefit analysis for saving human lives. O'Grady from Practical Engineering did a great video explaining how much a human life is worth to engineers. I think it was a little under $60k.

The purpose of reducing government oversight as much as possible is so that the cost of killing people is as low as possible.

It's not an on/off switch of government regulation. They know that every additional policy they can shift in their favor will translate to increased profits down the line as people inevitably die from these things.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fight Club taught me the cost of human life to corporations.

If PredictedLawsuitLosses < CostOfRecall then RecallNotAnnounced

Human life doesn't factor in at all for them.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Human life absolutely factors into predicted lawsuit losses. Wrongful death lawsuits are expensive.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

What I meant is they don't care about people as people.

It's just a number to them.

If they can profit of millions dying and they know they could get away with it, they would.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

But not expensive enough to stop them killing people through negligence and greed.

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