The technology is improving, no question, but there's a reason the majority of companies have
human safety drivers behind the wheel.
Other footage showed that in the seconds before the accident,
the human safety driver behind the wheel was mostly looking down, not at the road.
Not exact matches
The thinking
behind the decision, explains Erik Coelingh, Volvo's senior technical leader for
safety and
driver - support technologies, is that Autopilot will include so many redundant and backup systems — duplicate cameras, radars, batteries, brakes, computers, steering actuators — that a
human driver will never need to intervene and thus can not be at fault.
A
human safety driver was
behind the wheel at the time but Authorities have not publicly identified the victim yet.
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google's parent company, reached an important milestone recently: since mid-October, the company has been operating its autonomous minivans on public roads in Arizona without a
safety driver — or any
human at all —
behind the wheel.