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I love my house and have absolutely no regrets about the price paid for it; that’s the fundamental difference.
That’s great, as you actually understand that people can have no regrets about things that cost them a fair bit of cash, as long as they feel it was worth it to them. That means the only question is why you would care about what other people feel is worth it to them.
 
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It’s crazy to think about but the iPhone is only 18 years old. Before that I don’t think we were so attached.


No, it’s not that they tend to do much worse. It’s that they get news coverage. Quite frequently in my area there’s a drunk driver that goes down the wrong side of the highway and gets into a head on killing someone. When’s the last time you heard of a Waymo going down the wrong side of the highway and killing someone? One hit a pole a while back and it made national news.
I was actually thinking about the minor incidents where self-driving goes off script, and people usually just muddle through while just driving even more poorly than usual. The drunk driver would actually be an example of my viewpoint that self-driving would most likely usually do better than the dumb decisions most of us humans make.

However, I’m old and still consider even current AI to just be larger scale pattern matching, so I don’t expect it to deal well with major variations to the norm, but maybe my view would change if I actually rode in a Waymo.

I’d be curious of the actual percentages, as in number of Waymo versus human drivers, as I would expect it to be far less than a hundredth of a percent, and they already do have a few accidents under their belts (as would be expected, though I assume this site would be happy to talk about all of them ;))
 
That’s great, as you actually understand that people can have no regrets about things that cost them a fair bit of cash, as long as they feel it was worth it to them. That means the only question is why you would care about what other people feel is worth it to them.
I don’t care an iota about the few individuals who defend buying such a crappy product; I care about Apple’s visionless leadership squandering resources on that POS.
 
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