Hi
@krugerrands
Let me say at the outset I am a huge fan of autonomous vehicles. Not an ounce of fear to be found. One day my sight will mean that I will no longer have a licence to drive. I want autonomy.
My negativity comes from the English Common Law which like AKIDA was designed by imperfect men to incrementally improve itself. You see English jurists thought of this idea centuries before Peter van der Made and you thought lawyers contribute nothing.
In consequence in 1892 the English Appeals Court set in train a new line of legal theory and practise in the famous Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company decision.
To a large extent before this case industry acted in a cavalier fashion regarding its obligations to the consumer. What flowed from this case was a framework for the modern consideration that if you are engaged in an enterprise for profit you must do so in a fashion that you will not cause injury to others. If doing so is not economically viable hard luck. Go away and don’t come back until you can.
The approach adopted by Tesla and followed by others is to cast this aside and sell vehicles that are not fit for purpose on the basis it would be too expensive for it to be done any other way. Well I say hard luck go away and come back when you can.
This idea plays out constantly with new medical treatments. Companies trying to invent cures for all sorts of diseases have to show safety in animal models and then if this is shown recruit human volunteers and show safety in humans and then they can proceed further. If they cannot recruit human volunteers at any stage hard luck go away and come back when you can. They are not allowed to sell the untested drug to people and collect the statistics on the basis well if a few die so what.
If I produce a toaster and it has a fault that causes the back panel to be electrified and potentially deadly to touch a warning on the box will not be deemed sufficient and I have to make it fit for purpose or go away until I can. My claim that it is too expensive will not resonate.
Very early in the piece an autonomous vehicle engineer gained some notoriety by saying that the public would have to get used to a few deaths to achieve autonomous driving. Well I say B.S. to this idea.
As much as Tesla would like for the masses to believe they have a higher mission it is no higher than making profits to fund the lifestyles and hobbies of those who own the company which includes shareholders.
If Tesla came out tomorrow and said we are becoming a not for profit and the value of all shareholdings will now revert to zero and dividends will never materialise they would not last one minute longer than it takes to call an EGM to kick them all out.
So I say to Tesla and others humans are not crash test dummies. Come back when your vehicles are safe.
Also I think you will find that with experience and practice the driving skills of humans does incrementally improve even amongst the worst of human drivers.
True at a certain point in the growing and ageing process those abilities will also deteriorate however the same thing happens to machines, cars and computers included.
When a Tesla is brand new and drives out of the showroom it will commence to age and overtime just like the human driver it’s battery will fade and it’s circuits will corrode and its performance will suffer. Lettuce will cost $10.00 and owners will choose food over car servicing.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
was my first time in a helicopter as well!
2 more years!
