Gday Roger
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nothing will ever be 100% foolproof you cant fix "stupid" with electronics. People think they are safe now with airbags , ABS etc and forget to drive to conditions and not do stupid things.
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Fully agree, and hence "safe" autonomous driving cars are essentially impossible :-). Ie people arent "expected" to drive to the conditions, the computer does it for them, and the computers arent ready yet.
( Just listen to "The Eighth day" by Hazel O'Connor to see the results )
Currently airbags, ABS, auto lane correction etc are all designed to remove the driver from the situation, and hence we end up with "not expected" situations causing grief as the driver is zoned out.
I wrote in an earlier post that we have spent Billions of dollars trying to make planes fully autonomous, ( and we arent there yet )
Autonomous cars wil be a quantum leap more complex than planes, so i am not holding my breath on them being truly "safe" any time soon.
They will certainly be introduced ( as big business stands to make a killing from the introduction ), but i know who will die along the way to improve the concept.
Andrew