An observation via juxtaposition: Twitter currently suggests that self-driving cars could save as many lives per year as 100% female doctors
30k lives per year expected saved by self driving cars http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/self-driving-cars-could-save-300000-lives-per-decade-in-america/407956/ … 32k by all female MDs https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/female-doctors-superiority/511034/ …
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Replace Doctors altogether and maybe 210,000 lives/year saved? (hyperbole, but hey) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals/ …
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yea that's the other part of this. Improving car mortality expects a near complete eradication of traffic deaths
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the same mortality improvement in medicine is ~1% improvement in mortality there
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Yeah, just struck me I may be having more impact consulting on electronic medical software than on self-driving cars.
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The thing that struck me beyond the main point is that that 32K is due to a < 1% improvement in mortality!
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seems like the soft backed techno-utopism from the Valley: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/google-wants-driverless-cars-but-do-we.html?_r=0 …
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