It can be asserted with some confidence that common opinion is certainly an unreliable guide about what exists, if indeed it can be induced to pronounce on this matter at all.
This puts the onus on the potentially innocent accused, which considering that polygraphs can be unreliable is certainly problematic.
(Figures for the underground economy, led by drug trafficking, are notoriously unreliable, but certainly are measured in billions).
For nearly 9 years, Gen. Musharraf was our double-gaming, unreliable (and certainly undemocratic) "ally" in our enterprise to mop up what Rumsfeld- Franks & Co. failed with grave consequences to mop up inside Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11.
Even the unreliability is unreliable.
It was written against deadlines in the rush and tumble of events in Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as in Africa; high-pressure work for a poorly financed organisation, in which getting to a telegraph office or a working telex machine was at least as important as the discovery of possibly unreliable, and almost certainly swiftly changing, fact.
Ishiguro's fiction has certainly mined the complexities involved in the unreliable, first-person narrator.
And facial recognition systems, the hottest new tech thing around (and spreading like wildfire across China), may be the most unreliable of all, although that certainly hasn't stopped Amazon from marketing a surveillance camera with facial recognition abilities.
It is certainly true that many people are put off bus travel because of unreliable services, overcrowding and uncomfortable journeys.
