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The incident in northern California marked the latest mishap blamed on the electric vehicle company's Autopilot tech

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Because 2007+ have seen an influx of new computer users, mostly using mobile devices, many of them thinking that this is how computer use looks now and that this is the future.

Now the iPhone generation (including adults and seniors who haven't used anything smarter) thinks that you can replace any expert UI with an Angry Birds like arcade on a touchscreen.

If real autopilot to be trusted were possible for airplanes now, we'd see fully automated drone swarms in all warzones and likely automated jets (not having the constraint of G-forces survivable by a human, and not requiring life support systems at all), but in real life it's still human-controlled FPV drones and human-piloted jets.

Though I think drone swarms are coming. It's, of course, important to have control over where the force is applied, but a bomb that destroys a town when you need to destroy a house is often preferable to no bomb at all.

The point was that people want magic now and believe crooks who promise them magic now. Education is the way to counter this.

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