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I so much don't agree with this conclusion. AV accidents should definitely be investigated and the required hardware or (most likely) software adjustments shou
by oferzelig 9y ago
I so much don't agree with this conclusion.
AV accidents should definitely be investigated and the required hardware or (most likely) software adjustments should be made.
But it's not a slippery slope; on the contrary: every accident will fine tune the software algorithm, and collectively traffic will become safer.
A reality of autonomous vehicles is so much better for the human kind than the current reality of human-driven cars, with all the errors they make.
- imartin2k 9y agoI wrote the article. Your comment is not responding to what I wrote. My point in the post is not "AVs are NOT better for the human kind". My point is neither "AVs are a slippery slope" nor "AVs won't make traffic safer". My point is that the acceptance of occasional casualties caused by AVs is a slippery slope, which many people intuitively understand (whether they can express it or not), and which in part might explain the discrepancy in the public reaction to an AV killing someone and John or Jane Doe driving killing someone.
- oferzelig 9y agoThe discrepancy I see goes the other way around. AV accidents get much more media attention than regular vehicles' (man bites dog vs. dog bites man).