On: California Senate votes to allow self-driving cars

[fennecfoxen]

You say that as if human-operated cars aren't already the planet's foremost killing machines.

Honestly, in terms of safety, having your automated car do "better than a human driver" is a pretty low bar, compared to the risks faced everywhere else in your life.

[waterlesscloud → fennecfoxen]

Remote control of cars by government authorities will be inevitable once this tech is in use. It's as certain a thing as there is.

Government access to your navigational records, which will exist on a centralized service, is only slightly less certain.

Not that I think it's a conspiratorial threat to our freedoms, but there are tradeoffs that will come with this.