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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:28 JST Rich Felker

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   • clay anderson 🇺🇦🇮🇱🔰🥑🌐🚲🗽☢️

   @cshentrup @futurebird "They respect speed limits"?? What kind of propaganda is this? At least one manufacturer has been caught explicitly programming their cars to speed and drive extremely aggressively because their customers wouldn't like the self driving feature if it didn't do that.

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     clay anderson 🇺🇦🇮🇱🔰🥑🌐🚲🗽☢️ (cshentrup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:29 JST clay anderson 🇺🇦🇮🇱🔰🥑🌐🚲🗽☢️

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     @futurebird Well I work for a self-driving car company and while I hate cars and will probably end up moving to the Netherlands to get away from them, and primarily use my electric car go bike, I do think the numbers already speak to there being significantly superior to human drivers. they always stop at stop signs, they respect speed limits, they recognize painted bike lanes etc.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:30 JST myrmepropagandist

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     I should have trusted what I'd learned from first-hand experience programming & writing programs that processed images & that made decisions.

     I should have noticed the parallels to the 'work' (self-perpetuating failure cycle) of the RAND corporation & compstat.

     I knew the problem of making a car drive was hard. Messy. But, I dismissed this knowledge from my experience because authoritative people said "the smart boys in the valley have this all worked out"

     Never. Ever. Again.
     Will I. 2/

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 12:42:31 JST myrmepropagandist

     I'm really mad at several college professors in the CS department at my undergrad who told us all "self driving cars are coming" and trusting them as authorities I quashed my many qualms and wasted a lot of time in otherwise important conversations about urban planning insisting that we account for the impact of this 'inevitable' variable.

     "They will be safer than human drivers." tapped into my confirmation bias ... I hate drivers, after all. Of course every one could be bested by a machine. 1/