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There’s some important lessons we could learn about how the illusion of control impacts how we talk about these 17 fatalities, vs the other 42,000 people who die on the streets every year in the USA.
[but yes, put Elon in the next Tesla that gets launched into eternal orbit]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
@bikepedantic For me, at least, what makes these accidents worse than driver-error accidents is centralized control over the software behind them. One engineer screwing up an over-the-wire update could get a bunch of people killed before the fault is isolated. The risk isn't distributed.
@bikepedantic is the traffic Engineer's illusion of control different in the case of self-driving cars?