It's a sad reality, but regardless of how many times per day a pedestrian is hit by a human-driven car, such incidents involving self-driving cars will be headline news for years to come.
If they kill fewer people, they can be run by a joint venture of Satan and the Mafia for all I care.
For example, what if instead of 100 people per day dying from human-driven car accidents(where 95 of them are car drivers/passengers, and the other 5 are pedestrians/bicyclists), self-driving cars only kill 30 people per day, but 28 out of 30 are pedestrians/bicyclists?
I can see banning autonomous vehicles in city centers.
I had been assuming that self driving cars would be a 'reset' for our decision to value cars more than the countless lives they end. Self driving cars could take the irrationality and emotion out of driving. It would be America's "stop the murder of children" moment (The Netherlands rallying cry to reform auto traffic in 1970's).
But now I see that it can, and probably will go the other way. These giant companies could push to further restrict the rights of cyclists/pedestrians around roadways, vilify the 'stupid' people who made a reckless decision that resulted in an accident, and push our country even further into car culture.
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