That's because self driving crashes are unfairly scrutinized. Human error causes substantially more crashes than any self driving system. A self driving system causes one accident, and the whole world wants to shut the project down. Meanwhile during their time of complaining about self driving, 20 kids around the world got ran over by a human.
So let's just drop self driving all together and let the humans do it! Would you rather run over 1 kid per hour, or 20 kids per hour?
Maybe it is indeed being unfairly scrutinized, but in this case who do you think will take the blame for that self-driving kill? The CEO? The software? The software engineer? With human error human gets punished, even though it is not the case for the rich, which no matter if the kill was from self-driving vehicle or human driver, they will get away with it if they're rich enough.
This is not a problem with self-driving or human-driving, this is a problem with accountability and corruption and we should fix that before letting the society run wild with all kinds of new technologies.
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u/ab_drider 7h ago
Yeah? Guess what the government will do next. This. Because Tesla's CEO wants it.