For starters, regulators will have to come up with a definition of «safe» — whether that means the machines must drive flawlessly or simply break fewer laws and get into fewer accidents
than human drivers do.
Not exact matches
Based on current facts, the Google car doesn't seem a lot better
than human drivers 2.
Sure, they may occasionally
do worse
than a
human driver would, he concedes, and their imperfections will inevitably even kill people.
The
driver aid tech is starting to show its age — particularly the brake - based, rather
than steering - based, lane departure prevention system — but the QX80 still
does a more
than adequate job of keeping its
human cargo safe.
How much attention is a «
driver» supposed to give to what the vehicle is
doing, and what responsibility
does the «
driver» have to take over if the car appears to be
doing something wrong, especially when the reaction time of the car is much better
than a
human's, and it may be too late by the time the
human figures out something is amiss?