It's often reactionary - people wait for someone to die and then suddenly you have nervous Musk in front of Congress and such crap. Why wait? Why can't these be regulated before allowing on roads?
And no, failover control is not acceptable given the past incidents and deaths.
Today thousands are dying every year on the road, are we just forbidding cars entirely?
> And no, failover control is not acceptable given the past incidents and deaths.
How many incidents/deaths per miles driven? How does it compare to all the other transportation systems?
Professional drivers can go for a million miles without an accident, and I don't believe anyone's autonomous driving software can get within an order of magnitude of that without a disengagement, even in favorable conditions.
You may disagree that a disengagement is equivalent to a human having an accident, but I strongly feel that it is. In either case, you have a situation where the driver reached a point where it was definitively unable to determine an appropriate next action.
“Perhaps that’s because, as it turns out, Teslas on Autopilot could have a higher fatal accident rate than those driven entirely by humans.”
They still have backup drivers mostly though.
Please explain, in detail, what your specific objections are, and how you are more qualified on this subject matter than the presenter.