Can self-driving cars withstand first fatality?
Police in
Current federal regulations have few requirements specifically for self-driving vehicles, leaving it for states to handle. Many, such as
No matter whether police find Uber or the pedestrian at fault in the Sunday crash, many federal and state officials say their regulations are sufficient to keep people safe while allowing the potentially life-saving technology to grow. Others, however, argue the regulations don't go far enough.
"I don't think we need to jump to conclusions and make changes to our business," said Michigan State Sen.
Ananich called the death of 49-year-old
Proponents of light regulations, including the Trump administration's
About 6,000 pedestrians were killed last year in crashes that involved cars driven by humans, he said. "What we want to do is see that stop or try to get it preventable," he said.
But safety advocates and others say companies are moving too quickly, and they fear others will die as road testing finds gaps that automated systems can't handle.
Others say that the laser and radar sensors on the SUV involved in the
Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst for
Without standards for software coding quality and cyber security, there will be more deaths as autonomous vehicles are tested on public roads, said
"We can say eventually they'll learn not to kill us," McKnight said. "In the meantime they will be killing more people."
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