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		jacabado on Jan 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most under-hyped, but most important, technolo... Just to put in context, a link that was here last week or so about the Automation Paradox: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-dea... Will there be a compromise between traditional crash deaths and safety systems induced deaths ? Not to dismiss the new systems, I'm an optimistic by nature.

lincolnq on Jan 4, 2010 [–]

How is it not still a net win? The automated systems fail a lot less often than humans. Even if they can't get the failure rate to 0%, it is still making things safer to replace humans by robots.

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