Re:Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:50AM
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So basically, it's too late.
Maybe regulators should have been preemptively putting barriers in front of commercializing (then) sci-fi level tech. When there's no competitive pressure and rushing to be first to market, when it's just university people on DARPA funding developing the tech, you can afford to have it done The Right Way. Now that people are excited and build companies around self-driving, we'll only get Worse is Better.
Maybe regulators should have been preemptively putting barriers in front of commercializing (then) sci-fi level tech. When there's no competitive pressure and rushing to be first to market, when it's just university people on DARPA funding developing the tech, you can afford to have it done The Right Way. Now that people are excited and build companies around self-driving, we'll only get Worse is Better.