[ExI] Are Self-driving cars good enough now?

[Kelly Anderson]

I've said exactly this for years. To make it happen though, there also
needs to be legislation that makes the burden of proof quite high for
a consumer to sue an autonomous car company for wrongful death or
injury. The actual transition will be sped along if insurance
companies get behind autonomous driving by appropriately lowering the
prices charged for an autonomous car and likewise increasing insurance
premiums for meat driven cars.

-Kelly

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:09 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> We Are All Bad Drivers
> Anyone rooting against self-driving cars is cheering for tens of
> thousands of deaths, year after year. We shouldn’t be burning
> self-driving cars in the streets. We should be celebrating…
> By Eric Newcomer     February 28, 2024
>
> <https://www.thefp.com/p/we-are-all-bad-drivers>
> Quote:
> There was a time when I believed that self-driving cars should be held
> to the standard of airplanes. Every mistake needed to be rigorously
> understood and any human death was unforgivable. But my view has
> evolved over time as human drivers have continued to kill tens of
> thousands of people a year. We need a solution that’s meaningfully
> better than human drivers, yes, but we shouldn’t wait for perfection
> before we start getting dangerous human drivers off the streets.
> ----------------
>
> Sounds good to me!
>
> BillK
>
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