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<\/p>\nRUSH: I mentioned that there\u2019s the first known, first reported fatality involving an autonomously driven car. It was an Uber car. It was in Arizona. An Arizona pedestrian was killed. And because of this, Uber has halted testing of its autonomous vehicles all across North America, including San Francisco, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Toronto, and a number of others have canceled theirs too.<\/p>\n
And, you know, it\u2019s fascinating, folks, to read liberal blogs about this. As you know, I spend time on the tech blogs. And the tech blogs are populated by young Millennial leftist journalists. And while they hate Uber for one reason, they don\u2019t like the CEO and his mistreatment of women. But on the other hand they love Uber \u2019cause it\u2019s high-tech, it\u2019s software, it\u2019s automatic driving investigations or experimentation.<\/p>\n
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Now, what happened in this case, there was a human being acting as backup, so there was a human being in the car. The car was tooling along, and a woman, according to the cops, darted out in front of the car from shadow. She was in a median between lanes, and she was not in a crosswalk. Now, that\u2019s important because the software for one of these autonomously software driven cars, the crosswalk would have been programmed into it, and it would have had a sensor, sensitivity.<\/p>\n
The woman darted out, and the investigators, the cops said it wouldn\u2019t have mattered if the human being in the car had total control over it, this woman would have not been missed. Nobody would have had a reaction time quick enough to avoid hitting her. So the autonomous driving car has been exonerated from any blame in the death. So I\u2019m reading my tech blogs on this and the tech blogs are urging caution, and let\u2019s not rush to judgment. People die every day. We can\u2019t be hasty in our condemnation of this marvelous new technology, driverless automobiles.<\/p>\n
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And all I could think of, if this woman had been killed by a gun, would these same tech bloggers have expressed caution and said let\u2019s not rush to judgment here, or would they be on a tear today? And, in fact, one of the tech bloggers pointed out, “Hey, we gotta keep things in perspective. There are 50,000 people a year killed in automobile accidents,” as though this is just one of them. Isn\u2019t any big deal. But wait a minute. I thought it was life that was precious.<\/p>\n
So is it 50,000 people killed one way or another involving automobiles every year — well, we\u2019ll look past that. I mean, we\u2019re not gonna ban the wheel, and we\u2019re not gonna ban the car, and we\u2019re not gonna blame AAA. But let there be a gun involved, they throw all that out and they become banshees on the warpath to get rid of every gun in the world. And yet they\u2019ll sit by and acknowledge 50,000 people, hundred people a week die in car crashes, so let\u2019s keep this in perspective. And I thought, what a bunch of hypocrites.<\/p>\n
‘Cause the point is, we cannot allow this masterful new technology, driverless automobiles, we cannot allow it to be sidetracked. We cannot allow it to be delayed. We cannot permit it being harmed in any way because it\u2019s the future. So in certain cases, a random death here, a random death there, that\u2019s just the cost of doing business. But when a gun\u2019s involved, why, we gotta go out and get rid of the Second Amendment. We gotta disband the NRA. We gotta put the chairman of the NRA in jail. Amazing hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the cops said it was not the car\u2019s fault; it was not the software\u2019s fault. It was the woman\u2019s fault. She jumped out in front of the car. Nobody would have been able to stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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