Reply to post: Re: What about the driver?

Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers

Danny 2

Re: What about the driver?

The driver was playing Frogger.

A car either drives itself safely or it doesn't, a human in a driving seat is just a scape goat.

I used to drive 100,000+ miles a year as a tech support engineer and half the time I was on autopilot, sometimes with bad results. I never hurt anyone else but I could have. Being driven by a car that seems to know what it is doing will just lull the driver into a false sense of security and they'll lose attention.

It'd be better the other way around, the human drives the car and the computer intervenes if the human makes a mistake.

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