Wired: The Maddening Struggle to Make Robo-Cars Safe -- And Prove It

Even the pros can have trouble understanding how their cars perceive their surroundings and make decisions. And lack of clarity is scary when making two-ton machines that move at speed among fragile beings.

“Most of what I’d heard in press and at events with autonomous vehicle people was political rhetoric: ‘We won’t hurt anybody; this will be safer than a person.’ But there is no engineering to back that up,” ... “In the world of aviation and wider automation, safety engineering is a real discipline.”

https://www.wired.com/story/zoox-self-driving-cars-safety/

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