A Florida judge found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew the automaker’s vehicles had a defective Autopilot system but still allowed the cars to be driven unsafely, according to a ruling.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I recall musk saying something on the lines of “we have to accept that self driving cars will also cause deaths” like 10 years ago or so

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      1 year ago

      Context is important. If we focused on perfect safety like this for other forms of transportation we’d never fly, take trains, drive cars, ride on boats, or anything else. Self driving has a significantly better safety record than humans. That context is critical. It doesn’t mean that we stop striving to be safer; it just means it’s reasonable to use it in many circumstances.