In article , Chris
wrote:


Yes, I call that "creeping autonomy". Such driver-assist tech is IMO a
good idea.

Except when you start relying on it and it doesn't work. See the poor woman
in pheonix.

that was human error, not a failure of an autonomous system.

the uber operator was not paying attention and didn't notice anything
wrong until it was too late.

the vehicle's anti-collision system *did* detect the pedestrian, except
that it had been disabled because uber was testing their own system,
which considered it to be a false positive.

the person in the vehicle was supposed to be monitoring what was going
on so that the system could learn, except she was watching tv instead.

had she been paying attention, there would not have been a crash.

also, the person who was hit stepped in front of a moving vehicle,
assuming it would stop, and in an area where visibility was limited.
that's not a good strategy.

autonomous vehicles do not need to be perfect. nothing can be.

they only need to be better than humans, which sadly, is not that hard
to do.

more than 1 million people die every year due to motor vehicle crashes,
with ~50 million more injured. that's 2 people killed every *minute*.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

nearly all of those could be avoided.