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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see them all the time.

The biggest story not being reported is the failure of automated driving to deliver on its promises and the low likelihood of it doing so in our lifetimes. [/quote]

I strongly disagree.

Automated driving, per user, kills significantly fewer people than human driving! As usual, it's not a technical problem, it's a behavioral problem. Humans have a hard time accepting injuries and deaths when a machine made the decision, because that's a loss of control that a human brain isn't quite ready for just yet. The much higher toll due to human error is for the moment, infinitely more acceptable, since every human thinks: "I drive better, I am more careful, it won't happen to me. But if a machine makes a mistake, it could be me."

We saw the same thing for Covid vaccines: the technology was there, and vaccine penetration was low in certain places. Our technology has always outpaced our brain's capacity to evolve to accept it immediately. We're still prehistoric little hominids in our hindbrain.
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