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.
Photo: one of the first wild roses on the river up north this week.
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®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&pgtype=article
Posted by: David Lubic | July 08, 2016 at 06:08 AM
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®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=column&rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fbits
Posted by: David Lubic | July 08, 2016 at 06:05 AM