[SystemSafety] Autonomously Driven Car Kills Pedestrian

[Peter Bishop]

On 20/03/2018 12:01, C. Michael Holloway wrote:
> There are a bunch of ridiculous
> claims being made by the self-driving car zealots, which are
> unfortunately being accepted by the US Congress. The most egregious is
> the assertions about the number of lives that can saved. That's not a
> reason it is an excuse. If saving lives was the motivation, there are
> far simpler ways to accomplish it.

Although we only have a sample of one (or maybe two if you include
Tesla) it would be interesting to see how self drive compares with
manual in terms of deaths per mile travelled at the present time.

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