@abucci I like the stance against the agenda of capitalist exploitation and responsibility shirking for road deaths. those are important new measures.
one point of feedback for you is this idea of the comparison of deaths per km driven between autonomous vehicles vs human driven vehicles. that too is an important existing measure of comparison. human negligence with cars kills people. often. if a technology reduces that rate of death, it is an improvement by that real measure.
@falcennial@mastodon.social Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are “negligent” is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
“Autonomous” vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn’t make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.
@abucci I like the stance against the agenda of capitalist exploitation and responsibility shirking for road deaths. those are important new measures.
one point of feedback for you is this idea of the comparison of deaths per km driven between autonomous vehicles vs human driven vehicles. that too is an important existing measure of comparison. human negligence with cars kills people. often. if a technology reduces that rate of death, it is an improvement by that real measure.
@falcennial@mastodon.social Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are “negligent” is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
“Autonomous” vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn’t make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.