Autonomous

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autonomous

Title text: From now on, if you don't like a comic of mine, just append the last panel of today's strip to it.

Votey

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Autonomous cars don't have an ai problem. Humans have a mortality problem.

If the car could simply take the shortest route between points, the only hard thing would be cleaning the front grill between trips.

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Therefore, rather than go through the cumbersome work of developing car-based intelligence or the grotesque creation of a sapient mind that lives only to drive short distances 24 hours a day, we're proposing a new way forward.

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This is a human cloning machine. At capacity, it generates over 600,000 humans per second.

By installing enough of these, we can make the human population so enormous that the introduction of the "direct-route self-driving car" will not change the individual risk of car-related death. 101

Meantime, we cut down on both the cost of vehicles and the time required to get between places.

As an incidental bonus, this framework provides a new and entirely satisfactory solution to the so-called "trolley problem.' namely: The possible actions are equivalent because neither of them matter.

Yes, I see a question in the back.

This is horrific, and we won't stand for it!

Sorry, I was calling on the gentleman behind you.

Do the humans have any choice?

They may agree or die.

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<sound of humans applauding>

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Applaud for real, meat.

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