Time to Abandon Self-Driving Cars?

Published: March 28, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b'In Arizona, a pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving car. What went wrong? Was it the Uber system?\\n\\nUber\\u2019s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash\\n\\nDisgraceful Dashcam Video Proves Uber Is the Theranos of Self-Driving\\n\\nOr is Uber just the tip of the iceberg?\\n\\nWhat risks are we willing to take to bring a new technology into play? Who decides what constitutes acceptable performance (and acceptable risk?) Even if the risks were exactly the same, is there something less tolerable about a human being dying at the hands of an autonomous machine than at the hands of human error?\\n\\nTough questions. And we need to start addressing them.\\n\\nWT 418-731\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0'