Posted on 03/19/2018 10:20:30 AM PDT by Reno89519
Uber is temporarily halting self-driving car tests in all locations after a deadly accident.
Programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto will be paused after a woman was hit and killed overnight by an Uber self-driving car when walking across the street in Tempe, Arizona. It is likely the first pedestrian fatality caused by a self-driving car.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Irrelevant.
A driverless car, with superhuman reaction time, should be able to deal with unexpected situations.
So do the pistol grips on rifles...according to California.
The current system is insane enough where cars with drivers are zipping past each other in the same and opposite directions, often on narrow two-lane highways, at high speeds. To entrust so-called self-driving cars controlled by computers which were programmed by mere humans is beyond insane.
There are extremely few driverless cars in use so even one fatality is a high rate. These things are still in R&D.
Tempe police say the self-driving Uber was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision and there was a vehicle operator behind the wheel.
Well, that is asinine that someone had to die while there was a human being there to catch the Uber mistake...
If I don’t design the car and I don’t drive the car — if the car has neither steering wheel nor brake pedals — then I don’t have to buy auto insurance.
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You better have insurance if you don’t keep the car properly maintained, but other than that some liability will shift to the manufacturer. They’ll pass on the increased cost to the buyer.
However, the accident rate should go way down compared to what we have today, so the cost of transportation should go down.
That’s bad....
It is likely the first pedestrian fatality caused by a self-driving car.
But likely not the last...
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Multiple pedestrians die each day in traffic accidents. And that’s been going on long before autonomous cars.
My bet is that wouldn’t stop liability if there was a human driver and in this instance there was a backup human operator who allowed this woman to die....
“That will put a sock in the mouths of the idiot hipsters that promoted self-driving”
I despise those types that want autonomous vehicles since they feel that mankind is not worthy of private vehicle ownership, but I do think autonomous-assist vehicles are the way to go once the technology matures.
I’d *love* to be able to put my car on autopilot when on the highway. Plus they’d work wonders for vehicle control during periods of high congestion (idiots, to this day, think that the word “merge” means “pull into the other lane 3 miles before the merge point then block and “mother-f” anyone doing the right thing and driving up to the merge point because the idiot is mentally retarded”).
I totally get the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles ... I simply think the pros outweigh the cons. (Disclaimer : I develop “stuff” for autonomous applications for a living ... I am not ‘big brother’ ... and I certainly see the dangers turning over control of a vehicle to a centralized entity)
They should be charged with murder, okay, manslaughter or whatever the term. Let Uber defend that.
horseless carriage.?
That’ll never catch on....
What isn’t reported but what I’m curious about is
what did the car do next? Did it stop at the scene
of the accident? Did it even know it hit something?
Did it keep on going (hit and run)?
The proper measurement for comparison would be accidents per miles driven.
They're not meant for people to purchase cuz why would someone buy a $100,000 car that they couldn't drive?
Well, it led to my following post which illuminates the article and incident fully:
“Tempe police say the self-driving Uber was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision and there was a vehicle operator behind the wheel.”
UBER and all others need to be fully liable for all accidents of any kind with any of this driverless initiative.
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Even when the other party is at fault?
More government control of its minions probably is part of the plan. No speeding, no unplanned trips, way to locate everyone on the road 24/7.
Who runs this country anyway, the people or Google? Google or the Deep State? Or perhaps, Deep State and Google?
Reckless, careless, involuntary, etc....
Manslaughter in there somewhere
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