On a self-driving car ride about two days before 21 October 2023, Brooks felt real fear for half a second, thinking he might be in an extremely bad accident.
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Reasoning
A private inner feeling of fear cannot be checked.
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Rodney Brooks, “On a self-driving car ride about two days before 21 October 2023, Brooks felt real fear for half a second, thinking he might be in an extremely bad accident.” (said 21 October 2023). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_1a15ea5b4442, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_1a15ea5b4442
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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