[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Jim Birch]

Brendan wrote:

It's not clear to me that overall lower injuries/fatalities overrides the
> manner in which they're suffered/ who they're suffered by.


This sounds a little spooky to me.  Are you saying you don't mind being
injured or killed provided there is a good redeeming narrative available? :)

Flying is relatively very safe but plenty of people find it scary. That
doesn't seem to me a valid reason for banning airlines or something.
Seatbelts were considered to have a risk of trapping occupants in an
imperiled vehicle.  They have produced an immense reduction in RTA death,
injury and economic loss.  Maybe someone was actually trapped in burning
car by their seatbelt sometime.  This might be a cause for a seat belt
redesign but it certainly is not a reason to abandon seatbelts.  Self
driving cars potentially offer a similar jump in safety.

Can you give an example?

Jim