[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Brendan]

On 07/13/2016 03:55 PM, David Boxall wrote:
> For me, the question is not whether self-driving vehicles are perfect
> (every system has a failure rate), it's whether they're an
> improvement.

It may be more nuanced than that.

The failure modes for a driverless vehicle are probably different from those of a driven vehicle.

It's not clear to me that overall lower injuries/fatalities overrides the manner in which they're suffered/ who they're suffered by.