(March 19, 2018 at 11:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Self driving cars are actually very good. They have been around for a while now, this is the first case of a death.
What I really want to know is why the human driver didn’t brake. The whole reason there’s still a human behind the wheel is to act when the car fails. There’s clearly still work to do, but we also shouldn’t overreact to one case.
It is often found that during pilot training, inexperienced flight instructors tend to delay taking over the control of the aircraft for safety when the student pilot does dangerous things. The instructors are trained to be vigilant for such action and promptly take control of the aircraft when the student pilot screw up. But when someone or something is apparently operating a vehicle normally, it seems to be reflexive for humans to give the controller more latitude then is warranted when situation suddenly change.
