Society Will Accept a Death Caused by a Robotaxi, Waymo Co-CEO Says
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Waymo co-CEO suggests society will accept deaths caused by robotaxis, sparking debate on the ethics of autonomous vehicles and the trade-offs between safety and progress.
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The real sickness is that we have to look to software controlled cars as the solution.
I suppose AI will soon be used to deal with the problem of children raised in broken homes.