As a pedestrian, if you opt to leap in front of an autonomous car that is coming down the street, presumably doing the legal speed limit, yet you suddenly appear without sufficient indication, the physics of the car, even a vaunted self-driving car, will be such that you are going to get hit. Sorry, there is no magical flying carpet or invisible shield that’s going to overt this .
Also, in the mix of human-driven cars and driverless cars, there are bound to be fender benders, rear-end run-ins and all kinds of car accidents or incidents. You also need to include in your calculus the chances of an AI system error or a hardware failure or fault that can get the autonomous car into untoward traffic troubles, possibly leading to human injuries or deaths.
Bottom-line: Self-driving cars will account for some amount of human injuries and deaths, though the intention is that it will be less than the amount sustained in today’s human driving world.
Bottom-line: For now, you’ll likely be able to continue being a paid driver of a car, though this will become gradually lessened and hopefully over time you’ll be able to reskill to some other paying task.Notice that each of the Top 5 angsts has a kernel of truth to it, though at a deeper analysis they are not quite as bad as much of the media tends to portray them.
not only driving is a waste of time, we humans also suck at it. why all cars are not autonomous is a wonder!
Bring on the self driving cars! I would love to not worry about who goes first in a four-way stop anymore
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Oh FFS 🙈 can the anti Tesla agenda be anymore obvious? I suspect people got anxiety the first time they got in a car or used a mobile phone or microwave!