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I don't disagree, but that's not quite the problem space I am curious about. My thesis is that as a society we've accepted that humans make mistakes and will k

I don't disagree, but that's not quite the problem space I am curious about. My thesis is that as a society we've accepted that humans make mistakes and will kill people on the road. I suspect that society will be much less willing to accept that sort of thinking when it's an AI-driven vehicle making the mistakes, no matter how much better at driving it is. I suspect we will always want, or need someone (as opposed to some thing) to blame when the worst happens.

dkarl 4y ago
It's also an exotic, scary risk, as opposed to a familiar risk we've come to accept, like the risks of nuclear power versus the risks of fossil fuel power. We'll never compare a death from one fairly with a death from the other because one feels extra and the other feels normal. A future in which self-driving cars kill 3,000 people per year in the U.S. sounds unimaginably grotesque to most people, even though that's less than a tenth of the number of people killed by human-driven cars.