I feel like people do get into actual trouble when decisions indirectly kill people. Just now I was watching news coverage about manslaughter charges because a person helped a drunk person regain access to their car keys. That seems even more removed than charging for the DUI.
I suspect that producing “lethally dangerous cars” is not so vividly in the public concioucness as safety precautions are taken so seriously that safety recalls are so mundane that it doesn’t register as a special exceptional event. That is partly why such things would be so scandalous to encounter because they are so preventable and there are so many systems for early detection.
I do think that there are different level so ethical atunement. You can be oblivious and then just react to things as they happen. But some people can appriciate the meaning of driving slowly in a school district even before any child jumps into the middle of the road. Part of the driving licence training I have been throught was to ponder about how it would be an error state to try to suddenly swerve to try to not hit a squirrel with the high probablity of putting human lives in danger. I can appriciate that in an actual ive situation I can’t benefit from those deliberations to the full extent that I think over in this theorethical presetting but I do think it makes a difference how I actually would drive (even if it just means slightly smoother drivelines and .2-.3 second reaction time differences).
I can totally see a driver doing what they can in panic mode do what they can and then after the fact look back and how their actual driving was detached from the story they are telling themselfs. But at the same time I can see people willing to later standup for their split second decision to run over property over life or some other such thing. I suspect that there is also a difference in the level of annoyement when a “close by” situation happens. When your thought process actually went to thinking about splashing yourself against the wall to increase safety you tend to be a little more hotheaded about the dangerous situation being formed rather if you just panic deer-headlighted your way through it. And even legally the whole concept of “negligence” can be thought about whether a proper level of awareness and care was rendered. You can be drunk in your house but in a car you have a duty to be perceptive (and dexterous and all kinds of stuff) and you if you can’t be perceptive because you are drunk you should exit the vechicle.
But such things try to target the danger of the conduct rather than the actual bad fallouts. Thus whether the ultimate outcome is happy or lethal can’t really be a factor in the forbiddeness or badness of the act. Thus people being caught texting and driving and receiving speedtickets tend to think the regulations are unneccarily strict and punishing while when actually something happens the outcomes can seem light.
It is the probably the case that wetware is actually more error prone and dangerous than silicone in helm of a car. However people have accepted the risks of wetware malfunction much more readily than silicone. Correcting errors in silicone is a area of a very narrow expertise. Punishing and dealing with inadequcies of humans is what everybody has to deal with. It is a different standard. In a way I understand that if somebody made a factory that produced “only” handcraft perfection and relatiblity that would be horribly broken as a factory but the same class of products made by hand would be perfectly marketable. That is part of the package, technology is only expected to do a very narrow thing but then expected to do the very limited things next to perfect.
I feel like people do get into actual trouble when decisions indirectly kill people. Just now I was watching news coverage about manslaughter charges because a person helped a drunk person regain access to their car keys. That seems even more removed than charging for the DUI.
I suspect that producing “lethally dangerous cars” is not so vividly in the public concioucness as safety precautions are taken so seriously that safety recalls are so mundane that it doesn’t register as a special exceptional event. That is partly why such things would be so scandalous to encounter because they are so preventable and there are so many systems for early detection.
I do think that there are different level so ethical atunement. You can be oblivious and then just react to things as they happen. But some people can appriciate the meaning of driving slowly in a school district even before any child jumps into the middle of the road. Part of the driving licence training I have been throught was to ponder about how it would be an error state to try to suddenly swerve to try to not hit a squirrel with the high probablity of putting human lives in danger. I can appriciate that in an actual ive situation I can’t benefit from those deliberations to the full extent that I think over in this theorethical presetting but I do think it makes a difference how I actually would drive (even if it just means slightly smoother drivelines and .2-.3 second reaction time differences).
I can totally see a driver doing what they can in panic mode do what they can and then after the fact look back and how their actual driving was detached from the story they are telling themselfs. But at the same time I can see people willing to later standup for their split second decision to run over property over life or some other such thing. I suspect that there is also a difference in the level of annoyement when a “close by” situation happens. When your thought process actually went to thinking about splashing yourself against the wall to increase safety you tend to be a little more hotheaded about the dangerous situation being formed rather if you just panic deer-headlighted your way through it. And even legally the whole concept of “negligence” can be thought about whether a proper level of awareness and care was rendered. You can be drunk in your house but in a car you have a duty to be perceptive (and dexterous and all kinds of stuff) and you if you can’t be perceptive because you are drunk you should exit the vechicle.
But such things try to target the danger of the conduct rather than the actual bad fallouts. Thus whether the ultimate outcome is happy or lethal can’t really be a factor in the forbiddeness or badness of the act. Thus people being caught texting and driving and receiving speedtickets tend to think the regulations are unneccarily strict and punishing while when actually something happens the outcomes can seem light.
It is the probably the case that wetware is actually more error prone and dangerous than silicone in helm of a car. However people have accepted the risks of wetware malfunction much more readily than silicone. Correcting errors in silicone is a area of a very narrow expertise. Punishing and dealing with inadequcies of humans is what everybody has to deal with. It is a different standard. In a way I understand that if somebody made a factory that produced “only” handcraft perfection and relatiblity that would be horribly broken as a factory but the same class of products made by hand would be perfectly marketable. That is part of the package, technology is only expected to do a very narrow thing but then expected to do the very limited things next to perfect.