If driverless cars killed 20,000 people per year, it would still be a big improvement over the 50,000 or so killed by drivers. Wehave to keep in mind that the current technology kills too.
“If driverless cars killed 20,000 people per year, it would still be a big improvement over the 50,000 or so killed by drivers. Wehave to keep in mind that the current technology kills too.”
If the 20,000 die but there is no one who is liable? Then no. It is not ‘better’. Current auto deaths have established legal tools for establishing liability. The current technology does very little of the killing. It is rare that a vehicular death is ruled as being the fault of the vehicle itself.
A computer driverless car has 80 accidents by one account. Tell the Dept of Motor Vehicles you have 80 accidents on your record.
Tell the DMV the fatality was a mere computer glitch, and you apologized already.
Government is making human drivers 2nd class citizens.
Many Robot car incidents are angry people smashing the peopleless vehicle.