I have no confidence that Tesla will fix this before the planned Robo-Taxi rollout in Austin in 2 weeks.

After all, they haven’t fixed it in the last 9 years that self-driving Teslas have been on the road.

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    They know these things are going to kill people; it’s just inevitable.

    Engineers are well aware of there being a cost-benefit analysis for saving human lives. O’Grady from Practical Engineering did a great video explaining how much a human life is worth to engineers. I think it was a little under $60k.

    The purpose of reducing government oversight as much as possible is so that the cost of killing people is as low as possible.

    It’s not an on/off switch of government regulation. They know that every additional policy they can shift in their favor will translate to increased profits down the line as people inevitably die from these things.

    • Sixty
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      Some of you may die~

      But it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

    • @IllNess@infosec.pub
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      Fight Club taught me the cost of human life to corporations.

      If PredictedLawsuitLosses < CostOfRecall then RecallNotAnnounced

      Human life doesn’t factor in at all for them.

      • @exasperation@lemm.ee
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        Human life absolutely factors into predicted lawsuit losses. Wrongful death lawsuits are expensive.

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          What I meant is they don’t care about people as people.

          It’s just a number to them.

          If they can profit of millions dying and they know they could get away with it, they would.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      This is why capitalists align with fascists.

      Google, Meta, etc, are all taking the knee, because no regulation lets them slurp up our data. Target is shooting itself in the foot on DEI to appease stupid Mussolini, because a fascist autocrat doesn’t enforce labor protections.

      • @frostysauce@lemmy.world
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        Fascism, at its core, is an alignment between government and corporations. Capitalists align with fascism because that’s the entire point of fascism.

      • @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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        I lived there for six-ish years- from 1998 until 2004.

        When Americans re-elected GWB, I realized “this place is RAPIDLY becoming a shithole that’s only going to get worse.” I got the hell out as soon as I was able, and every single day since, I’ve been more relieved I left when I did.

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      On the bright side, maybe this is building up to an “owner of the Segway company”-type ending?