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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Misleading headline is misleading.

The full statement was about society accepting this in the context of autonomous vehicles also drastically reducing these deaths, overall. Which, yeah, society will likely accept that, given that we already "accept" quite a lot of traffic deaths.

To be clear, I still think this is all crap. We all know that what's actually gonna happen is that when this kind of accident happens, the companies will be functionally immune from liability. People harmed or killed by these autonomous vehicles will have no recourse to hold anyone accountable. Not to mention the VAST assumptions baked into "autonomous vehicles will reduce traffic deaths"