re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White

Ya know, the idea of testing autonomous vehicles in real traffic with test drivers ready to take over at any moment SOUNDS good, till you realize that there are so many drivers out there who are already distracted even when they’re the ones driving.

As I commented on Unshaken Defiance’s article in the right hand column of LGF Link which argues we should be ashamed of bashing self-driving cars over one death, there are two problems with that:

How many self-driving cars in Arizona versus total cars?
Google has already had a number of accidents with self-driving cars.

I will not be ashamed of looking sideways at technology that is not yet ready (the cars are sold on the idea that these things won’t happen). See also Facebook.

And the woman who was killed in Arizona could have been detected if that test had been done on a track (without using a real person). She died so Uber could make a profit, nothing more.

I am opposed to using the public highways as a test-bed.