DiscoGary wrote:
simple equation wrote:
As long as autonomous cars kill fewer than 6,000 people each year nobody has anything to complain about.
This was only 1 person, so 5996 more people have to be killed before it's a problem.
Moran. Driverless cars would be dead by the time they killed their 10th person in the same year. Try to THINK. Use your imagination. See the future. Be the future.
I guess you're saying autonomous cars would be banned if they killed 10 people a year, but 10 deaths a year is nothing. Not enough to cause autonomous cars to be banned.
Already, about 480,000 people die each year in the US from cigarette smoking, but cigarettes aren't banned. About 30,000 people die of cirrhosis of the liver each year in the US but alcohol isn't banned. About 13,000 people are killed by guns in the US each year (excluding suicides), but guns aren't banned.
As for cars about 37,000 people were killed in car accidents last year and cars weren't banned.
Out of a population of 323 million, the US can certainly afford under 6,000 deaths a year from autonomous vehicles.