the issue is that autonomous cars are supposed to be safer, that this wasn't supposed to happen. The hope was that if all cares autonomous, there would be no more deaths because of motor vehicles
I think there's a place for autonomous cars even if they're safer but not perfect. I think the thing that will stop or severely delay them is the sue happy nature of people. If a person druving a car has a split second choice to either hit a train head on (and die) or hit a passenger and kill them, whatever the outcome is can be chalked up to human error or accident. But if an autonomous car is in that position, the decision was consciously made long ago by the programming team. This means they have someone to sue (who also has money).
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So i think autonomous car accidents are going to be much more about morality than statistics.
Huge liability issue. Planes, trains and ships all have some form of auto pilot; but there’s also a team of humans overseeing the operation of each vehicle.
Autonomous vehicles are poised to remove millions of middle class jobs from the economy and centralize a profit stream into the hands of a duopoly.
Yes everyone is paying attention.
No amount of technology can stop this unfortunate situation. Evidently the woman stepped into traffic without looking, and not in a crosswalk. Going 40mph and someone steps 10' infront of you ... Their going to have a bad time
Apparently they updated the article from when I first read it because originally it said she was at a crosswalk. I know because I thought the same thing, about not seeing it, but figured I was just missing something.
Timing is important here. Go look up news clippings from wen there were only a handful of cars on the worlds roads and you'll see similar "freak outs" over even minor things. A new technology goes through a period of evaluation, for autonomous cars this is their chance. In order to justify the costs and changes to society that adopting them will bring they must prove to be better than what we have now, so they will be held to higher standards- otherwosebwhats the point? If they are deemed un ready then we may choose not to allow them on public roads until they go through more development in a controlled environment and prove to not be a hazard. We don't have that luxury with cars since most people's lives and society itself relies on them, we are pretty stuck until something better can be made profitable.
Yes, thousands of crashes a day, but that is out of hundreds of millions of cars on the road at a time. When you only have a single, or handful at most, automated cars, the percentage of failure is very different with even a single accident. It goes from 1% if vehicles being in accidents to 10% or even 25%
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than humans. Accidents are always going to happen, but if we can at least lessen them by taking humans from out behind the wheel then we obviously should.
Update: Have you seen the video of this? The police admit that even if someone was driving, there was little chance of avoiding the victim. She came out of the shadows, crossing the road, casually walking in the dark, not in a hurry, not surprised that she got hit.
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So i think autonomous car accidents are going to be much more about morality than statistics.
Autonomous vehicles are poised to remove millions of middle class jobs from the economy and centralize a profit stream into the hands of a duopoly.
Yes everyone is paying attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/self-driving-uber-pedestrian-killed.html