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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Ok. Good info. Maybe that wasn't a good example. What about car accidents? 2.2M injured every year. Mandate that all cars be fully autonomous by 2030 - that number drops by a factor of 10 (100?). Or ban gas cars? We've just seen smog disappear in Italy and China when people don't drive. The increase in air quality alone would probably save/lengthen millions of lives, and probably would better the lives of many people who have to live with problems caused by poor air quality. All of these things are significantly less costly than what we are doing right now.
ETA: my background in econ pretty much makes my brain look at the cost/benefit of things. I know it's a robotic way of looking at things. But if Dumbledore is allowed to think about "for the greater good," then so am I.
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Thus far the tech isn't there on autonomous cars. They don't know how to not kill pedestrians and people on bike and other things that require active monitoring.
But eventually, sure. Probably insurance companies will be able to push people driven-cars off the road without a mandate, but maybe we will get there.
Lots of other things we could do to save lives on the road, though, but people care more about parking and driving faster, so even when we try, there's outrage.
