A) There was no human error, unless it was error on the pedestrian’s part. Thus goal accomplished.
B) No one said there wouldn’t be some machine error. Just that it would likely be less than human error and would improve over time.
C) I”m an advocate and one accident which was likely the pedestrian’s fault will hardly silence me.
D) Yes when everything is automated there will be more accidents due to automation. But total accidents will decrease as the decrease in human error will more than offset the increase in machine error.
As usual we speculate on articles that don't have any details. Being late at night, I speculate alcohol was somehow involved. Lets say the pedestrian was drunk. If so, the current technology isn't very good.
Um,cars and computers are human inventions. How is combining the two into one machine make it less prone to error than are the humans behind it?