biogen wrote:
I agree with discogary in that autonomous driving will have to be far safer than human driving for the public to accept it and for widespread adoption to occur. getting comfortable having a computer with your life in its hands will not be easy.
Then you don't agree with him, you agree with me. I said as long as loss-of-life is reduced, it would be logical to adopt it. He said that if there was a chance of the vehicle being hacked (which there will be, because there isn't a piece of software that can't be hacked) then there will be a public outcry.
Human-operated cars weren't outlawed when people discovered the dangers of drunk driving, and they weren't outlawed when the cell phone was invented and created a huge safety risk. Their utility outweighed that risk. And I believe it will be the same case with autonomous vehicles.