Thursday, 25 January 2018

Who's driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase

Who's driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase

When California police officers approached a Tesla stopped in the centre of a five-lane highway outside San Francisco last week, they found a man asleep at the wheel. The driver, who was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, told them his car was in “autopilot”, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driver assist system. In a separate incident this week, firefighters in Culver City reported that a Tesla rear-ended their parked fire truck as it attended an accident on the freeway. Again, the driver said the vehicle was in autopilot.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/24/self-driving-cars-dangerous-period-false-security?source=Snapzu

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