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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Tldr: Take the train and be safe.

Rant: In the EU, you are 35x more likely to die from a car crash, compared to a train crash. The union has created the so-called Vision Zero program, which is designed to reach zero driving deaths by some arbitrarily chosen date in the future. And of course it talks about autonomously driving cars. You know, crazy idea, but what if instead of we bet it all on some hypothetical magic Jesus technology that may or may not exist by the arbitrarily chosen date and instead focus on the real world solution that we already have? But well, the car industry investors would make less money, so I can answer that myself. :(

Edit: Also, Musk is a Nazi cunt who should die of cancer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Too bad I live in hell country. Where there are no sidewalks or public transportation just roads and we have facist dipshits bought out by big car companies. I would love to take a train or a bus but that stuff doesn't exist here and never will until we re-educate and remake America from the ground up. America is just too far gone at this rate to even want these public transportation services at all or even bike-lanes. Cities would rather destroy themselves for big top stores anyway and highways thinking they are a good thing only to realize that will ensure they will cease to be alongside their local businesses. I'm sorry but I'm forced to walk on the road and nearly get run over legally speaking with zero repurcussions from the driver side because I shouldn't of been walking on the road anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I've never been in the USA. Is it really that bad? I've heard that the USA have basically eradicated their own culture, because they destroyed their city centres in favour of suburbs, which need to be subsidised constantly. And therefore, cities sprawl. Is that true?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think musk cunt should die of starvation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Have you seen his human-growth-hormone belly? It would take years, man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Retrofitting, in some parts of the world suburbs have already been built.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree trains are generally safer but I'd like to know more about the data. Are those just base death chance statistics (e.g.: 100 people die from train accidents every year compared to 3500 from cars) or deaths/km travelled?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The numbers are calculated from the average of the EU27 killed travelers per billion person kilometers.

So in this case 2.5 perished by car, 0.07 perished by trains, (2.5/0.07~35.71).

Source: https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/verkehrssicherheit/

Critique of source: biased towards trains given their organisation's purpose.

Edit: typo.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Speaking as a German: There are fewer train-related deaths because the trains don’t drive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Well, we can thank Mr. Schröder for that. "Der Genosse der Bosse"

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Made by someone who's able to THINK like a Tesla owner.

Brake pedal? Unthinkable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Have you seen the brake test first Tesla's? It's not good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Coming soon to a Semi near you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jump out of the car.

"I'm not driving, I'm travelling" 🤓

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Don't the Sovereign Citizens's say something like that? Weird people man...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's a feature, not a bug.

-Musk, probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Attach 12 M67s to the underside of the turdsla, each having a sturdy steel cable welded to the pin. Retreat to a safe distance behind appropriate cover and pull cables using a forceful yank.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Elon isn’t going to last much longer no matter what

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Trick question. I'm asleep at the wheel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Sure. The Tesla is doing 45 mph and the collision is 15 feet ahead. Your reaction speed + brakes will totally fix it, math checks out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Cant Kobayashi maru the trolley problem. There is no choice but the choices presented.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Kobayashi Maru was supposed to be unwinnable too!

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Unironically this is a perfect example of why AI is being used to choose targets to murder in the Palestinian Genocide or in cases like DOGE attacking the functioning of the U.S. government, also US healthcare company claims of denial or collusion of landlord software to raise rent.

The economic function of AI is to abdicate responsibility for your actions so you can make a bit more money while hurting people, and until the public becomes crystal clear on that we are under a wild amount of danger.

Just substitute in for Elon the vague idea of a company that will become a legal and ethical escape goat for brutal choices by individual humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Which is honestly just the end game of a practice that's been getting worse for decades. It's partly why stuff was outsourced. The more layers between us and the atrocities, the less humanity can focus on reacting to them.

There's been a concerted effort to introduce as many possible layers as they can to divide people and break up communities in order to break humans ability to empathize (and then use that empathy to affect change).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Lol well, Escape Goat 1 & 2 were just too damn good at being tough as nails indie platformers and now the word is hopelessly Escape Goat not Scapegoat in my head I am afraid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The economic function of AI is to abdicate responsibility for your actions

Cars already do that without AI. If someone driving a car kills you and they aren't drunk, they probably won't get in any trouble and the car manufacturers never face any penalty for 40,000 deaths and 2,000,000 injuries per year they cause in the USA alone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, good point, there is a clear through line here

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which is why we need laws about human responsibility for decisions made by AI (or software in general).

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[–] [email protected] 290 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ha only if. Autopilot turns off right before a crash so that Tesla can claim it was off and blame it on the driver. Look it up.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Holy shit I did indeed look it up, and it's true. Dunno if it'll hold up but it's still shady as shit

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I didn't know this, but I'm not shocked, or even a little bit surprised.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mark Rober had a video on autopilot of several cars and he used his Tesla. The car turned off the autopilot when he crashed through a styrofaom wall.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is how they claim autopilot is safer than human drivers. In reality Tesla has one of the highest fatality rates but magically all of those happen when autopilot was "off"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At best Tesla pays a fine, not Elon.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Don't worry, DOGE will just fire the investigators before that happens.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 3 days ago

Autopilot will turn off a few milliseconds before impact either way

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow. That’s a staggeringly apt update

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