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   From: mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 10/17/2025 8:47 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Once they run over enough people it will begin to be seen as normal,   
   then as acceptable as any other automobile accident.   
      
   Seem improbable?  It's working for Trump.   
      
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