Re: Humans
"This should be seen as a huge negative for autonomous vehicles, specifically for Uber because they've designed the system to not bother to avoid killing pedestrians and cyclists, and more generally for the entire industry because the legal framwework for assigning accountability for any autonomous driving incidents is entirely absent."
Even worse, part of the "mitigation" was that the system was dithering over what the object was and kept changing its "mind". I'm not sure why that should matter. There was an object in the road so the car systems should have tried to avoid it either by stopping or changing direction or both. It doesn't matter whether it was a human being or not, it should still have tried to avoid the collision.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
