I think that’s the argument though, if a person had been driving the car would she be alive ? One of the guys I went ice climbing wth worked on AI, he told us about the driving courses he took in preparation for getting behind the wheel of the autonomous vehicles. I forgot to tell him about hubski, I regret that now. They were all about the kind of evasive manoeuvres we don’t learn in plain old drivers ed in case he had to take over last second. At first that made me think maybe with autonomous vehicles the way we teach people to drive could change. Instead of focusing on the basic’s we would have more time to focus on defensive and evasive driving techniques. Although I doubt that would stick around in their head and people would still get too comfortable. For everybody who always takes the right precautions using a machine in a workshop their are many more who cut corners. Now I’m thinking, how much safer does it have to be for us to trust autonomious vehicles over human drivers ? I think with human drivers we are able to blame one person but with the cars we wind up blaming all the cars even if statistically it is safer. We should obviously keep looking at the technology and trying to make it safer but will it ever be good enough ? And where does fault lie when an accident does take place ? Is it the cars fault or the human drivers for not paying attention and being able to take over ? Trust me - you do not want to live in a society where people blame the human when the robot crushes them where a fellow human wouldn't.