Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car: What does this mean for your future?
Recently a tragedy occurred in Arizona when a woman was killed by a driverless car. Because of this tragedy all types of questions have come up around the area regarding technology, ethics, and legalities.
An attorney you contacted me recently because of my work as a technology speaker and wanted to get my views on the ramifications of this. This attorney is Sean McBride and he is licensed to practice law in 12 states and the District of Columbia. In this interview we talked about technology as well as the morality an ethics that are involved in new technologies. He was able to address many of the legal issues or concerns or questions now in our minds.
You'll enjoy this video as you get a chance to explore with us those questions that we addressed and the ramifications for new technology. Our deep condolences go out to the family and those who knew the woman who was tragically killed. What do we need to do going forward? In this video we embrace the hot issues and address questions that will all of us are going to need to answer.
Please leave your comments and thoughts below. I look forward to hearing from you, my fellow Steemians on this important topic.
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We need to investigate whether the manual car could have save this accident...If not, then why one accident will decide the future of self-driving cars...Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day.... Even 1-2% reduction in deaths by the implementation of self driving cars will be a great achievement...
I heard it was about 37,000 killed but that could be wrong. Either way, I have to agree with you that the driverless cars will be enormously more safe. They don't get drunk. They won't get distracted by talking with another person. They won't try to "hot dog" it to impress someone nearby. We need to first, study thoroughly what went wrong in this case, and then implement plans so something like it won't happen in the future.
Thank you for your comment, @hms818.
Hi, @hms818. My understanding is there are about 37,000 auto accident deaths in the US every year. Your larger number may be a global number. This technology could save lives both in the US and throughout the world.
I think the self-driving cars may have different accidents than human driven cars. So there is a chance that self-driving cars will kill some people that wouldn't get killed by manually driven cars. But the self-driving cars should save many lives in other situations.
I think if we look at the net improvement and the direction to less auto injuries and deaths we are looking at the right metric.
Maybe, the self driving cars need more testing and this maybe was the best way to test out the car for the car maker and innovators....ever thought that way?
Thank you for your comment. Yes, I think we will need to continually test. I think that driverless cars will ultimately save hundreds of thousands of lives. However, we go through this with new phases of technology when tragedy happens. Like we said in the video, that is how we have to proceed.
I really appreciate you stopping by to leave a comment.
You are welcome.
Testing is definitely needed. And we need to find the right form of testing.
We also need to understand cars are dangerous and they are already many auto deaths each day. So the knee-jerk reaction of stopping all testing means those auto deaths (which may be reduced by technology in the future) will continue.
Yes, indeed @rshawnmcbride We must keep testing and moving forward when, not if, tragedies occur. This is the way of progress for humans.
It was an honor to be interviewed by you and talk about this. Thank you! I look forward to more discussions and interviews in the future.