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AV's are going to have accidents! Many will argue that that is a sign of their unfitness. Maybe, but probably not. The physics of very large masses is pretty concrete. The Tesla driver who was NOT driving a fully autonomous vehicle but was not ENGAGED was at fault in his own demise. That is not a mark against Tesla. It should have 'seen' the truck. Maybe. I'm sure it does now, and more besides. These things probably see in x-ray as well as infrared, LIDAR, RADAR, SONAR and plain old 'eyesight'. When they really are perfected they will be BETTER than you. That's just the way it is. If you don't want to spend the second half of your life starving to death you will support Progressive politicians that are arguing strenuously for taxes and other compensations from the companies that are poising themselves to completely automate every possible human function that allows ordinary people to earn a living. Every single one. Not even doctors are safe. Robotic scalpels and diagnostic algorithms will put thousands of doctors on the unemployment lines in the coming decades and unless we act now to insist that they pay into a general fund for a Basic Income for all Americans you will be very hungry.[/QUOTE]
The Tesla should also have detected and assessed the state of the driver and tried to make the driver alert or brought the car into a safer condition (perhaps stopped!) than driving at a fatal collision speed on a public road, or it should have been prevented from activating into semi-auto control at speeds above, perhaps 30 miles per hour (called "geofencing" or dynamic fencing). Same for the Uber design. In the case of at least one of the Teslas, it was driver sleep. In the case of the Uber, it was driver inattention.