A recent study presenting different accident scenarios found that people were less likely to blame an automated car, even when it was at fault,
than a human driver at fault.
Self - driving vehicles promise to be better
than human drivers at avoiding injury for both passengers and pedestrians.
Not exact matches
Rather
than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president
at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had
human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.
I clung to the shotgun seat while a self - driving Audi TT - S took corners far faster
than most
human drivers would dare, and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes, who runs the Stanford Dynamic Design Lab, sat
at the wheel.
In October 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles in production, as well as the forthcoming Model 3, will be built with an updated hardware suite, equipping each Tesla with the hardware needed for full self - driving capability
at a safety level substantially greater
than that of a
human driver.
Templeton argues that once auto - drive systems are proved much safer
than human drivers, it may be downright immoral to let
humans drive
at all.
A new autonomous Audi RS 7, dubbed «Robby,» recently lapped California's Sonoma Raceway in 2 minutes, 1 second — a time that Audi says is faster
than a
human driver managed
at the helm of the RS 7.
Researchers estimate species are being lost
at a rate
at least 100 times faster
than historical levels, with habitat loss, over-hunting and climate change just a few of the many
human - caused
drivers behind the event.
This initial report should make weary
drivers more
at ease knowing that the accidents reported were caused by the cars driven by
human's rather
than the ones driven by robots.