You have good points, thanks for discussing this. I think for me the fundamental problem is that with a human we can characterize reckless driving as driving th

You have good points, thanks for discussing this. I think for me the fundamental problem is that with a human we can characterize reckless driving as driving that a normal, competent human would not do. But there is no “normal, competent” self-driving car-so by what standard do we determine the program’s behavior to be reckless as opposed to just acceptable? I accept your point that this accident might not have led to criminal charges if a human had been responsible. But I don’t waver on my argument that if a human driver would have been held criminally responsible for this accident, then we should we hold the executives (or in extreme cases programmers) of Uber responsible in exactly the same way, whether that be criminal or not. Finally, with humans and pedestrian fatalities many cases involve drunk driving or sleepy driving. Self-driving cars can’t get drunk or sleepy; they can just have bad programming or bad hardware, both installed by their manufacturer.