What about the mangled bicycle on the sidewalk ahead of the vehicle?
Posted on 03/19/2018 11:44:55 AM PDT by grundle
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Tempe, Ariz., has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on a public road.
The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver at the wheel when it struck the woman, who was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, the Tempe police said in a statement. The episode happened on Sunday around 10 p.m. The woman was not publicly identified.
Uber said it had suspended testing of its self-driving cars in Tempe, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.
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The ultimate punishment for jaywalking.
Is this the first robot to kill a human?
likely not with a car maybe
Get out your checkbook Uber, your stupid idea has now cost someone their life.
It had better hire a good robot lawyer.
So, there was a person in the car at the time with the car set on "autonomous."
“Get out your checkbook Uber, your stupid idea has now cost someone their life”.......
Absolute idiocy to have self driving vehicles. Next things will be self flying airplanes, self shooting guns (oh boy, I can hear the uproar if that happens).
Violated the First Law of Robotics.
This goes way beyond Uber. The auto manufacturer and the developer of the self-driving technology might have a lot more exposure than Uber.
SkyNet has become self-aware.
[Is this the first robot to kill a human?]
It clearly broke the first rule of Asimov’s three rules of robotics....
What about the mangled bicycle on the sidewalk ahead of the vehicle?
People trust technology too much. Don’t get me wrong, technology is great when its used to serve people. But when we love technology to the point we become its servants, that’s too much.
Jaywalking. Darwinism.
Different accident. Fake news or bot news.
The cost of progress. Drivers need to be able to use their smartphone full time and looking out the windshield is too much trouble. /s
get ready for people to “sort of get hit” by these robot cars and the following lawsuits..
Well, the passenger was perfectly safe.
This raises an interesting legal question:
Can the people who wrote the code and tested the vehicle be charged with a negligence crime?
Or, even manslaughter?
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