(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.
Precisely. Just think of the number of pedestrians that are killed *every day* by cars operated by humans.
The main questions, as far as I can see them, is whether self-driven cars will kill *fewer* people and where the *blame* will be located. For a human-driven car, the blame can be paced on a human (whether or not that is air), but who pays the bills for a self-driven car when there is an accident?
