[acumenical]

Generally I agree with you, drivers get away with murder too easily, however in this case this woman's crime was not paying attention in a self driving car. What if instead she had been paying attention but applied the brakes too late, but it wasn't enough? What if she was paying attention but was confused by instructions from her employer to let the AI do its job? What if she had been in the same situation before but the car had previously stopped in exactly the same circumstances?

Even engineers become confused by LLM and think that it's so quirky that ChatGPT "hallucinates" when that's the nature of the technology. So how would you expect a layperson to actually know when they should apply the brake pedal in a moving vehicle that's supposed to drive itself (maybe)?

This is a bit more complicated than driving drunk and I'm fairly certain that the company responsible for the death did not seek a safety expert to copilot the vehicle, but rather any warm body willing to take an easy dead-end job.

[darkclouds]

> This is a bit more complicated than driving drunk

I'd argue no, manganese needs to be quantified in the blood stream when drunk driving imo, the state doesnt do that, but might if the doctor is called to take a blood sample having refused a breath test at the road side and/or in the police station.

Manganese has a half life of 10seconds in the blood stream, and alcohol is very good at releasing it into the blood stream for elimination and thus deficiency. When is a drunk person or a baby or toddler, not suffering from manganism which can be likened to Parkinsons?

Plus there are some gut bacteria which will produce ethanol from sugars, which is why some people always blow positive for drink driving even when they have not been drinking.

Simply measuring alcohol is not enough, and if you happen to be able to blow you own trumpet, then many musicians will know that they can do a rebreathing trick, which means they will never fail a breath test, even if they fall out of the vehicle!