Would you ride in Elon's robotaxi

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Originally Posted by clyde

You kill someone or don't; the car kills someone or not. 50/50 either way. Got it.

Some risk, but you have no idea how much, how little, how it compares to if you were in charge, but fuck it. Seems fun.

Your attempt to paint anyone who uses autopilot as a reckless, careless individual is failing.

You don't turn it on then hop on the back seat then take a nap. You sit there wjrh your hands in the wheel watching.

Taking your logic to the extreme, anyone who uses old school cruise control is a danger to society. I mean, they might forget to take over control when traffic slows and ram into the back of someone. Or there could be a bug and it could accelerate uncontrollably. How do you know it won't? Did you review the programming with your own eyes?

Have you ever had a beverage while driving? You could have killed someone when looking down for it and then driving one handed. Have you ever driven while tired? Or maybe too many hours straight without a break? Picked up your phone to answer it? Checked a text even though you know you shouldn't?

There are a lot of ways to kill someone while driving. I don't believe that using autopilot is anywhere near the top of the list of dangerous things I've done while driving. It's silly to even discuss it in that category.

If you put on autopilot then read a book? Yeah that's reckless. But I've seen people reading books while driving cars that *don't* have auto pilot as well. It's the book, not auto pilot.