Telsa Conceals Test Driver Auto Death

A test driver for Tesla died two months ago when the automatic speed control function failed to slow down for a truck.
That's not the story.  

The story is that Tesla refused to announce the death or accident for almost seven weeks, not until Federal Highway officials decided to investigate the crash.    See the New York Times story here.

We don't know how many people will die from self-driving and partially autonomous vehicles.  Here's what we know:  Google and Tesla and other car manufacturers won't tell  you. 

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Comments

[David Lubic]

Also a related matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/technology/why-we-need-to-pick-up-alvin-tofflers-torch.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=technology&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&pgtype=article

[David Lubic]

This may be a related matter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/technology/where-are-the-futurists.html?action=click&contentCollection=technology&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=column&rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fbits