Tesla self-driving cars

And they all had a human at the wheel

This is why Elon Musk has jumped into the "Fake News" arena. After all the free advertising and publicity both he and his companies have received over the years, he's pissed that news sites are covering the Tesla Autopilot crashes. He called it "unfair" to cover crashes linked to Autopilot because other cars crash everyday. Then, about a week later, he started lashing out at the same media that gave him all the free advertising and publicity all those years and claiming he's going to start a project to filter out "fake news."

What’s alarming isn’t that machines crash. It’s why. We know humans crash. When humans crash it is most often caused by poor judgment, recklessness, or error. Machines aren’t prone to wanting to show off. They don’t get sleepy, distracted, drunk, or impatient/angry. In theory they should follow the speed limits and all laws safely. The fact self driving cars are crashing means the machines aren’t built to the task. We aren’t talking about a deer jolting out in front in many of these crashes, we are talking collisions with solid and persistent or semi persistent objects, over speed, and other causes a machine shouldn’t have. With manufacturers pushing to get these cars sold to the public in the near future, they are BETA testing a product to rush to be first to market at the price of public safety. There’s over $80 billion already on the table for the market and it will only grow. The concern is that money is being put before lives.