The initial police investigation points to the pedestrian being at fault, not the autonomous vehicle. It is good, however, that we are holding autonomous vehicles to a higher standard than humans, because

Thanks for the encouragement!

I think you need to read the details of this story further. Police are saying the pedestrian was at fault, not the automated car. It's a tragic accident, but nothing more.

I think you need to read the details of this story further. Police are saying the pedestrian was at fault, not the automated car. It's a tragic accident, but nothing more.

A lot of these comments are going on the assumption that the self-driving car failed, but police are already saying it looks like the pedestrian was at fault. If this were a human driver, it wouldn't have

Should self-driving vehicles be held to a higher standard than human drivers? If a human couldn't have stopped in time, are the programmers to blame when an autonomous vehicle fails to stop? I don't have

There's a lot of ethics to consider with autonomous vehicles, but the initial police investigation points to the pedestrian being at fault. A sad accident, but probably one that a human driver couldn't

Amen!