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> if somebody you loved was killed by a self-driving car, would you be comforted in knowing that the technology was in aggregate saving the lives of other people?

with a handful of centralized systems responsible for every accident everyone will be permanently panicked and outraged at its purportedly uncaring, greedy overlords.

> if somebody you loved was killed by a human-driven car, would you be comforted in knowing that the technology was in aggregate was being held back for further testing?

counterfactuals need to be near and specific for people to give them much thought, see:

http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/Psyc590Readings/Roese1997...

http://www3.canyons.edu/faculty/rafterm/0%200LLI%20LOVEandLO...



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