Elaine Herzberg’s Death Isn’t Uber’s Tragedy. It’s Ours.
There are two kinds of tragedies: those from which nothing is learned, and those that lead to change. Now that a pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving car, let’s dispense with the fiction that safety is a primary motivation in their development. Before Elaine Herzberg’s body was cold, the self-driving lobby raced to massage the narrative: you can’t make an omelette without brea—
You know the rest. Disgusting. These people should be ashamed.
You know who else should be ashamed? Those rushing to condemn self-driving cars. Why? Because nine other human beings were struck and killed by human-driven cars in Arizona just in the last week, and none of Uber’s critics said a word.Elaine Herzberg’s death isn’t Uber’s tragedy, it’s ours.