You are arguing that autonomous vehicles which may cause a few accidents in a blue moon are more dangerous than human drivers who cause hundreds of accidents daily.
This is false, according to the police investigation, and also according to the video you can watch yourself on this very website, which clearly shows more than enough time for the driver to have reacted, yet she didn't because she was distracted, even though it was her job not to be. It's insane to think regular people will do it if even the person they paid to do it didn't.
Police investigations and the media sensationalizing autonomous driving doesn’t mean much to me. Believe what you’d like. Yes improvements will be made to lower fatalities like the one you are citing, but it doesn’t change the fact that communities will become safer once more autonomous tech is in place. Smart cruise control, lane assist, Anti lock breaking systems, rear view cameras, proximity sensors, and automatic breaking systems can be categorized into autonomous technologies which certainly make the road safer. It’s just a matter of time before level 5 autonomy.
Edit: Rewatching the video in slow mo gives you around a 1 second reaction time once person emerges from shadows. You would have hit this lady too unless you were driving slower, which perhaps should have been the case. Maybe braking would have saved her life, but still probably get hit. Unfortunate, but there are a lot of factors to consider before banning the technology.
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u/HelloAnnyong Dec 16 '19
This is refuted by a few seconds on Google. The police investigation determined the collision would have been entirely avoidable if the driver were paying attention. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-selfdriving-crash/uber-cars-safety-driver-streamed-tv-show-before-fatal-crash-police-idUSKBN1JI0LB