I don't always like Gladwell, but his piece on the Ford Pinto and the NHTSA philosophy towards auto safety more generally is quite worth the read [1]. I hadn't

I don't always like Gladwell, but his piece on the Ford Pinto and the NHTSA philosophy towards auto safety more generally is quite worth the read [1]. I hadn't considered the intersection of this and self-driving car tech, but I wonder if NHTSA will basically take the position that as long as self-driving tech saves lives overall, a few "bugs" where the car kills the driver are an acceptable trade-off. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-lament http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-l...