Here’s an interesting TED talk on self-driving cars. They are going to save a lot of lives. I think arguments against them like this one on NPR are ignorant at best and immoral at worst. If you can save a million lives a year and you choose not to do it, you are instantly one of history’s mass murderers. Even if there is some bizarre special case someone can cite where a computer might kill someone and a person might not, that’s going to be extremely rare.
The fact that human-driven cars are running into things that are right in front of them is exactly why we need autonomous cars. An America with all, or even a significant fraction, of the cars being driven by computers that obey the law would be one in which we don’t have 35,000 deaths and 2.4 million injuries on our roadways each year.
Thanks for your comment and your point is a good one.
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