• Bahnd Rollard
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    16 hours ago

    We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3…

    • @DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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      113 minutes ago

      To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.

      Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.

      If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.

      Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.

      • Bahnd Rollard
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        25 hours ago

        Obviously I know how they work, I saw it in a documentary about Airplanes. The Otto pilot inflates at the press of a button (or is inflated manually) and they fly the plane.