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Originally Posted by ernie
That's really the issue...people seem to be relying on it actually being "self-driving" and are not paying attention. You can't do that...at least not until EVERY vehicle on the road is autonomous. Judging from various videos people are treating these things like they are a passenger and not the driver (including, it seems, the person who was unfortunately killed in this accident). Something like this was inevitable but the question is whether it happens less often. The other question is if a truck pulled out to turn and was relying on the car coming the other way to slow down and stop is it really the fault of the auto-pilot mode?
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It was the autopilots fault in that the autopilot saw the white trailer as white sky and didn't attempt to stop like a person would.
You cannot blame the person for not reacting. This is why this type of autonomous driving is dangerous. How can you expect a person to keep focus of your telling them the car will do the driving?
Having said all that, the proof is in the pudding. 132 million miles before the first death. That's far better than human driving. We're still going to see the majority of the cars on the road being self driving within 15 years