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Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 19 2018, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the bound-to-happen dept.

vux984 writes:

A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. It was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a vehicle operator behind the wheel. Uber has suspended testing of its self-driving cars.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-autonomous-car-fatal-crash/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/self-driving-uber-kills-arizona-171055918.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/594950197/uber-suspends-self-driving-tests-after-pedestrian-is-killed-in-arizona
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed-1521480386
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17139518/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-crash-tempe-arizona
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-test-car-involved-in-accident-resulting-in-pedestrian-death/

I couldn't find any good analysis of the liability situation here.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:38AM (#655260)
    It needs to be much better since you are giving up control and your genes have a much reduced influence over what happens. Having a wide spread potential lethal danger where the DNA doesn't have much influence on survival is not so good for the species. Maybe in toughness and recovery but that's it.

    This is why elevators have to be much safer than the stairs and why airplanes, trains and self-driving cars have to be much safer than you driving a car for yourself.

    p.s. that's also why it's great for the species to have young guys do crazy stupid potentially fatal stunts. Guys are far more expendable (you just need the males for a few minutes, you need the females for nine months), so evolution has made the males more keen to push the limits in all sorts of stuff. If some fail and die it's good for the species. If they succeed they might have something to contribute to the gene pool. That's why you see more guys in "fail" and "awesome" videos.
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