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Am I missing something here?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2010-12-29...

I've used it as a lightweight alternative to LucidChart and was impressed. Pretty cool to be able to just download it as html, in addition to as an image.

I agree that alcohol taxes aren't enough on their own, but their effect is likely very large and positive. This meta-analysis found that doubling the alcohol tax would reduce alcohol related mortality by 35% which is an incredibly high metric in the public health world.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20864710/

There is no such thing currently as reducing the risk of killing yourself or someone else with your car to 0. Braking distance and speed are insufficient variables to alter given people's preferences about the speed at which they'd wish to arrive at their destination. This will very likely also be the case when autonomous vehicles are deployed. There will be collisions, this is simply unfortunately a fact.

Given that there will be collisions, it seems prudent to have the car try to figure out what's better to collide with- the tree or the child. Given that there will be collisions, it also seems prudent to think carefully about other, more difficult moral dilemmas.

Refusing to code for an eventuality is itself a moral decision; inaction is an action that has an impact on the world.