Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • Baku
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    7 months ago

    Jesus Christ that sounds horrific… This wasn’t that bad, seems to have been fairly low speed, but it was freaky to witness

    • Thornburywitch
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      7 months ago

      All is well that ends well. No one hurt - the only real damage was to the cars and the insurance companies. I agree it can be freaky to see what really happens when a small error of judgement is made on the road. Then you see bad behaviour on the freeway/main roads and wonder when they’ll fail to get lucky.

      • NathA
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        7 months ago

        Driving is one thing that I really look forward to AI taking over. I think my kids will be the last generation to learn how to drive. It’s weird, AI is being held to a much stronger standard than humans. It is already better than human drivers, but it seems it won’t take over until it’s near perfect.

        Humans can drive really well, until they get fatigued or distracted and then they suck. But if a robot vehicle has an accident, whose fault is it? The owner of the vehicle? Or the company who makes the AI? This, and whatever we will do with the thousands of people who make a living driving are among the burning questions we need to resolve.

      • just_kitten
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        7 months ago

        Sometimes you drive past the times when they weren’t lucky and it really sits with you…