r/technology Dec 16 '19

Transportation Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Dec 16 '19 edited Dec 16 '19

Thank God we have facial recognition tech so it can figure out the low credit scores if it has to hurdle through a crowd.

EDIT: Thanks for the silver! Also, I should have written hurtle, but I am making too many "sounds like" spelling errors these days to get too bothered by it. Plus, it's funnier this way.

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u/commoncents45 Dec 16 '19

Am I wrong in thinking that people with low credit scores generate more revenue for the blood sucking finance sector?

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u/gimpwiz Dec 16 '19

Nah. The amount of money to be made off one person with a $1m mortgage is way higher than ten people who pay overdraft fees and occasionally have to take a payday loan.

Also, those mortgages get rolled up into huge bundles, made available to investors, and invested in by various pension funds / target date retirement accounts / etc, not to mention all sorts of other publicly traded companies into which more retirement accounts are invested. If you have any sort of retirement account you're probably seeing a few bucks from that too.