Personally I see the contemporary “autopilot by default in all traffic conditions” policy equally as dangerous as the ill fated Pinto....
Seems like auto manufacturers are taking a good thing and purposely adding an aspect of Russian roulette to the mix - or maybe Blind Man’s Bluff. Sent from my iPad > On May 28, 2021, at 9:32 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 28 May 2021 at 21:08, Mark Hanson via EV wrote: >> >> All manufacturing companies are constantly reducing costs, maximizing >> profits. > > Right. And when those cost reductions make the product less safe, the long > term cost can end up being much higher. > > And that's just the economic cost. The human cost is another matter > entirely. It was cheaper for Ford to pay legal judgements for dead and > burned Pinto passengers than to fix the car's gas tank design. Anybody here > want to argue that that was an ethical choice? > > Not that I'm actually drawing an analogy between Tesla's possible hobbling > of their autopilot and Ford's Pinto debacle yet. Let's see what happens. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in > humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals, and > lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, > and self-annihilation. > > -- Johnny Hart > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
