As companies like General Motors, Ford, Aptiv, Zoox, and Waymo continue to test their self-driving vehicles on public roads, there will be more dust-ups, fender-benders, and crashes that maim and kill.
Autonomous vehicles run off hundreds of thousands of lines of code, sensors and lidar – robots don’t understand eye contact or waves or nods. Their mistakes will seem mysterious to the human eye, and alarming.
“The argument is that the rate of accidents is supposed to go down, when autonomy is matured to a certain level,” says Mike Wagner, co-founder and CEO of Edge Case Research, which helps robotics companies build more robust software. “But how we get from here to there is not always entirely clear, especially if it needs a lot of on-road testing.”
Read the article at Wired.