Economist: Self-driving cars offer huge benefits—but have a dark side

[JManc]

Originally Posted by 10023

This is why France doesn’t have a tech industry or a start-up ecosystem.

And taking the “human spirit” out of driving is a feature of autonomous vehicles, not a bug. That human spirit causes accidents.

...and technology fails, crashes and is prone to malware. The stakes are higher when it is a car moving at 70 over an iPhone. Again, we will be very old by the time AI reaches the point an autonomous car can respond efficiently as a human and deal/ react to multiple unpredictable stimuli at the same time.