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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >   
   >They don't have to be perfect - they merely have to statistically   
   >safer than human drivers. I agree that unless we get AGI that can   
   >fit in a car, there will be situations where a human can handle   
   >a situation that a car can't.   
      
   That's the problem.  People will demand they be perfect.  They can't just   
   be better, they have to be perfect for the general public to accept them.   
      
   When somebody runs over a pedestrian it doesn't even make the newspaper in   
   a big city.  It might make page three of the weekly paper here in rural   
   Virginia, along with the article about the high schooler who got a scholarship   
   to Yale and the new hotdog shop opening.   
      
   But when an automated car runs over a pedestrian, it makes the national news   
   and if it doesn't lead it comes close to it.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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