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U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels (www.autoblog.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels::U.S. regulators will soon decide on a petition filed by General Motors' Cruise self-driving technology unit seeking permission to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles annually without human controls, a top auto safety official said on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, no, no, no. This is right up there with my state wanting to let 18-year-olds carry concealed deadly weapons in classrooms with no permit. A deal breaker for my continued participation in this society.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I recently learned that the state where I’m from considers a baton a deadly weapon so it can’t be purchased as a means of defense, but an Ak-47 is perfectly fine to purchase AND open carry.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Great gods. I guess the AK is considered a hunting rifle or a paperweight?

I'm tempted to ask if you're from the South, since this is exactly the garbage that too much of the region would champion. But honestly, the upper Midwest seems just as bad when it comes to "Muh guns!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To be fair I'd have a hard time concealing my ak47. It doesn't get fired much, ammo is expensive. Most of my ammo is for shotties and the .22 for putting down nuisance and injured animals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah self driving cars are totally the same thing as giving a teenager a gun in a school.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Given their track record, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a disgusting point of view.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their track record is literally better than the track record of the average human driver. The data doesn't back up what you're saying at all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

https://storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/files/documents/safety/Safety%20Performance%20of%20Waymo%20RO%20at%201M%20miles.pdf

This is waymo, not cruise, but it's a comparison between 1 million miles with no humans behind the wheel and the human average. That's about 80 years worth of human driving, and while that's not long enough to provide meaningful data on reducing fatalities, they do show that self driving cars reduce both the frequency and severity of more minor accidents