Is Tech Unsafe at Any Speed?
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Compares the 1956 Corvair failures and Ralph Nader’s 1965 Unsafe at Any Speed — 5.05 deaths per million road miles (~52,000 deaths/year) — to modern tech harms, arguing regulation, standards, and design cut casualties: 1966 NTSB, 1970 standards, seatbelts, crash testing, airbags. Calls for norms, training, checklists and tools like Ethical OS, Responsible Computer Science Challenge, Hippocratic oath for data scientists, plus advocacy and marks (dot Everyone, coworker org) so products are deliberately safe rather than accident-prone.
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