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Originally Posted by chillrob
I could be wrong, but for the record, I'm not making any claims about data or safety, and I'm not saying I wouldn't trust a self-driving car. I'm saying I think a good portion of the public wouldn't, and that the regulators would over-respond to any problems that come up.
That's the main problem because people are stupid.
Drunk/high/sleeping/texting driver kills somebody? big deal, happens all the time. Self-driving car kills its passenger? Wow, that's ridiculous! Stop that madness and disallow that evil technology.
Besides that, taxis won't even be the biggest hurdle because there are "only" a couple hundred thousand cab drivers in the US and their lobby is relatively weak. In comparison, there are 3.5 million truck drivers whose job will be equally obsolete. But their lobby is way stronger.
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Originally Posted by callipygian
And nobody forced online poker players to play on loosely regulated sites like Full Tilt, either.
And most people with some kind of common sense knew that their money wasn't 100% save there and acted accordingly aka withdrew regularly to put it somewhere protected by a deposit protection fund. That one might fail too, but only if the whole banking system of the respective country/currency area fails, at which point they would have bigger problems.
As already stated, I believe that companies should be required to better inform their customers instead of trying to protect customers by more regulation. The risk of getting raped in an Uber is 2x the risk of a cab? Force Uber to let customers know. Or let the Uber app show the insurance status of a driver so passengers can make informed decisions.