Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by jonathanyc on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:00PM
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We do hold non-self-driving car makers responsible for bad manufacturing. But in accidents not due to manufacturing we primarily hold the human drivers responsible. I agree with you overall, but the problem is that people seem overeager to hold no one responsible at all, sometimes based solely on a blind faith that self-driving cars will be safer than humans soon, and that the deaths along the way are just the price we will have to pay—as if there is no other option between no self driving cars at all, and the “move fast and break things” attitude that here resulted in a person’s death.
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by shkkmo on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:23PM
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> and the “move fast and break things” attitude that here resulted in a person’s death
Slow your roll. Nobody know why this person died yet.
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by lmm on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:04PM
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The thing to remember is that limiting self-driving cars is not safe either. Human-driven cars kill thousands of people every day; a policy that saved this person's life but set back self-driving car development by even (say) a month might well do more harm than good.
As a pedestrian you already run a significant risk of being killed by a car. To the extent that we hold autonomous car makers responsible for these deaths (and I'm not saying we shouldn't), we should hold non-autonomous car makers responsible for the deaths their vehicles cause as well.