• candyman337
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    14 days ago

    I highly doubt that

    Edit: I was tired and I misworded what I meant.

    MAYBE less wrecks are reported but we’ve seen reports out of major metropolitan areas about how these things are absolute menaces, honking at all hours of the night to try to park themselves, causing wrecks, just stopping in the middle of the road etc.

    Less property damage isn’t the whole story here, these things suck.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      1015 days ago

      Oh I can. They operate on well mapped areas, have a cautious driving style, and are consistent. The exact opposite of the average driver.

    • LughOP
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      15 days ago

      Swiss Re is one of the world’s largest insurance companies - do you think they usually lie about such things?

      It’s important to understand logic, biases and how to evaluate information sources to avoid conspiracy theory thinking.

      • @[email protected]M
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        415 days ago

        It’s important to understand logic, biases and how to evaluate information sources to avoid conspiracy theory thinking.

        This. It’s important to remember that this community is hosted on Futurology. The goal of this instance is to explore future technologies and ideas and we can’t do that objectively if we’re led by our biases. As humans, we have always hated being surpassed. When someone invented the pulley, there were masses of people that claimed to be better, but reality is cruel. If an insurance company is vouching for technology that without a doubt is causing them to pay out regularly, then they’re being objective. Driverless tech is inevitable, but it won’t be as common place as to make you feel comfortable about job losses, etc, for a while.

        For those of you new to Autonomous Vehicles or Futurology, welcome. There’s genuinely some fantastic people here and incredibly high quality posts. I’m biased, but I feel this instance is incredibly underrated.

    • Diplomjodler
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      415 days ago

      And what do you base that on?

      • candyman337
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        114 days ago

        https://lemmy.world/comment/14080710 this comment expresses well why I am skeptical. Additionally as I said in my edit, property damage isn’t the full story with these. They stop in the middle of roads causing traffic jams, and they have kept up people parking in a parking lot honking at all hours of the night. They’re disruptive.

        • threelonmusketeersM
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          013 days ago

          they have kept up people parking in a parking lot honking at all hours of the night. They’re disruptive

          Most disruptive technologies have some early teething problems. This seems like a minor issue compared to the increased safety.

    • @IsThisAnAI
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      15 days ago

      Blah blah blah, this doesn’t fit my narrative.

      It’s amazing to watch y’all do the same exact shit as trumpers.