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This is the identical thing that will make adoption of self-driving cars difficult on a broad scale. Thousands of human-caused accidents and deaths, but the fir
by themartorana 11y ago
This is the identical thing that will make adoption of self-driving cars difficult on a broad scale. Thousands of human-caused accidents and deaths, but the first person to die in a self-driving car (even if it's not that car's fault) will be devastating to rollout.
- taneq 11y agoWell, of course. Other humans are fallible and crash their cars all the time, but I'm a good driver and would never crash, so I don't want a self-driving car.
- makomk 11y agoThis is probably an understandable assumption, given that the car manufacturer will inevitably try and spin it as the driver's fault no matter what. For example, take the Cruise crash a while ago: car starts swerving in automatic mode, driver takes control but fails to bring it back on course before it crashes into a parked car. Headline in The Verge "Startup’s self-driving test car crashes after driver takes control", uncritically reports Cruise's claim that it was the driver's fault because they 'had "enough time" to correct the path of the vehicle to avoid the accident, but "unfortunately made a mistake."'