A car that can self-drive 100% of the time is a new tool that could make driving an obsolete skill. A car that can self-drive successfully 99% of the time is dangerous because it trains people to not be ready to take over for the 1% they need to.

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vidarh 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is only a problem if regulators and/or courts and/or consumers all fail to recognise that said 99% car isn't safe enough.

	▲	alecbz 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure -- I think articles like this are a warning that the skills we're losing are likely _not_ so completely supplanted by AI that they'll soon be irrelevant.

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casey2 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What actually happens is that the 1% is ignored or outlawed. The shovel doesn't do 100% of human excavating tasks better than hands, but we rightly realized that the space of possibilities involving a shovel was much greater than the 1% of hand powered excavation.

	▲	alecbz 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If the 1% is just a bit less efficient with the new tech, sure, but it's different if the 1% means your car crashes.