Was she wearing camouflage?
It is advertised as “autonomous.” Therefore, all the responsibility goes to the software that powered the car, and to the team of software designers.
That won’t happen, of course. The driverless car’s “driver” will be held responsible.
Better get this straight, folks. Many companies are gearing up to unleash robots and/or “artificial intelligence.” These devices can and will injure people, kill people, or destroy property. Better figure out who is responsible, folks! And DO NOT hold the entire public responsible through some crazy scheme.
When the bridge fell and killed people, it is the bridges fault, not the people behind it. As with guns, not the people misusing them, but a call for banning guns. This Uber car had an attendant behind the wheel monitoring the driverless car, what was he doing, daydreaming or fondling himself? Ban all driverless cars now, because someone got killed by one. Or someone, a human(s), need to be held accountable for killing a person.
So, what exactly is the purpose of the “safety driver”? Is he just there to take the keys away from the car if it runs over someone?
Only robots allowed to walk.
What is the practicality of a self driving car anyway? Say they had cars that could drive as the best human driver, why would you want to use it? I’m sorry but if I want to take a hop to the local supermarket I do not want to waste time punching in a street number, street name, town name, zip code then hitting a button and sitting back as the car goes EXACTLY at the speed limit which on some streets can seem like a crawl. No way would I be into that. I like cars, and this whole thing seems like a freedom rape, this dictatorial method of how we must be transported now.
And how the hell is that going to work for trucks unless they have some specialized roads that can be isolated, like say a tube? Are they REALLY going to get computers up to a level where it can predict potential danger, like say kids playing with a ball on the sidewalk and you slow down in case the ball goes into the street? Or can it tell the difference between a bag in the street and a hunk of metal? I use to drive a taxi in New York city. Twice I almost ran over a drunk guy passed out in the street in the West Village which was like drunko city back then, probably still is. I got out of the cab and physically pulled them to the sidewalk before they got hit. That’s two lives I saved. What’s a self driving cab going to do? There’s just so many different things that could happen it’s insane, I do not see how a self driving car could handle that especially in cities where you got all kinds of craziness going on. The only way I could see it working is if like I said they isolated the roads but then it would be like having railroads wouldn’t it.
I have been here in Scottsdale , just north of Tempe, for a week. We have seen these two Volvo’s with their spinning radar / laser array on top of them all week.
We crossed at the assigned crosswalks in front of them several times. I called out to one of the drivers the other night asking what they had on top.
Self driving car, the guy said. I walked faster.
If a driverless car can not be self-aware how can it be aware of others?