There is no utility in spending time discussing the relative cost of 1,000 lives of children versus 40,000 Americans (presuming the Americans are made up of less than 1,000 children).
Although, note that the US government has long provided better medical care to old people (via Medicare’s higher reimbursement to healthcare providers) than to [poor] children (because Medicaid pays less).
In the 1990s, it was funny seeing my 80+ year old immigrant grandparents get tons of healthcare while my dad would tell me to play carefully because we couldn’t afford the doctor if I broke an arm or leg, or we couldn’t afford a dentist and braces (small business owner so Medicaid disqualified due to assets, yet insufficient cash flow to pay doctors).
> There's no rhyme or reason to why sometimes the driver assist mows down children.
If you are claiming a software engineer is throwing in a random kill/maim function in the driver software, then that would be worse as it could be implemented at scale (rather than individual drivers choosing to kill/maim).
Otherwise, I would classify injury caused by driver assist mechanisms as technical issues due to hardware/software, directly comparable to injury caused by human drivers due to say choosing to look at their phone or drive drunk. Or being 95 and lacking physical/cognitive capacity.
Although, note that the US government has long provided better medical care to old people (via Medicare’s higher reimbursement to healthcare providers) than to [poor] children (because Medicaid pays less).
In the 1990s, it was funny seeing my 80+ year old immigrant grandparents get tons of healthcare while my dad would tell me to play carefully because we couldn’t afford the doctor if I broke an arm or leg, or we couldn’t afford a dentist and braces (small business owner so Medicaid disqualified due to assets, yet insufficient cash flow to pay doctors).
> There's no rhyme or reason to why sometimes the driver assist mows down children.
If you are claiming a software engineer is throwing in a random kill/maim function in the driver software, then that would be worse as it could be implemented at scale (rather than individual drivers choosing to kill/maim).
Otherwise, I would classify injury caused by driver assist mechanisms as technical issues due to hardware/software, directly comparable to injury caused by human drivers due to say choosing to look at their phone or drive drunk. Or being 95 and lacking physical/cognitive capacity.