re: #222 Targetpractice

When it comes to things like self-driving cars, I think Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” I think there’s a niche for self-driving vehicles, most likely in the transportation industry where insurance companies could argue that the safety of replacing drivers with computers outweigh any inherent dangers. But I doubt even major insurance companies are going to rush to mandate self-driving cars become standard anytime in the next 20-30 years. Seatbelts and airbags made sense because if they failed, the damage done was no worse than without them.

I can’t wait for some hacker to hijack a car and run it down the wrong side of a freeway, because a company cut corners on software engineering.