Your concerns about technology are pure BS. Leave those poor corporations alone

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42. You keep saying things as if they are fact but they aren't.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/09/this-company-just-solved-the-biggest-policy-problem-for-driverless-cars/

"a British insurance company has begun offering a special policy designed for autonomous and partly automated vehicles. In theory, you could use this on your Google driverless car or your Tesla that's equipped with autopilot."

You may not "trust it" but that has no bearing on reality. Google is up to almost two million miles driven including in washington where it rains all the time and has had one 2mph accident where the autonomous vehicle was at fault. Meanwhile those same vehicles have been hit multiple times by human drivers. The safety issue is clearly not the autonomous vehicle it is the humans.

90% of all accidents are caused by human error.

The insurance industry as a whole is looking askew at driverless cars because they realize they are going to be safer and already are safer.

“There will be crashes. There will be people injured and killed in these vehicles,” he said. “We’re going to have to hang in there and be ready for these kinds of things.”

But few would quibble with a 90 percent reduction in accidents. For every American killed in an accident, another eight are hospitalized, accordion to the McKinsey report, and another 100 are treated and released from emergency rooms:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/02/19/autonomous-vehicles-could-drive-car-insurance-companies-out-of-business/3/#5c9fc6df29bf

You think they will end up over a cliff but that is nothing more than your perception. The insurance companies themselves foresee a 90% reduction in accident rates despite you trying to come up with wild scenarios where they will be the most dangerous thing on the road.

A study last year found driverless cars are more likely than human-operated vehicles to be in accidents, but the accidents documented in the study were all the fault of the human drivers of other cars. None of the driverless cars caused an accident. Often, the driverless cars were struck because they were adhering to traffic laws, Burns said, like making sure an intersection is clear before proceeding when a light turns green, only to get rear-ended.

Those human-error accidents should also disappear as the system goes driverless.

No one has died in an autonomous vehicle. Teslas are not autonomous it is driver assist and tesla states in very clear terms that it is not meant to be autonomous.

Tesla has never claimed Autopilot is a driverless system. In fact, the firm has provided warnings each time owners activate the system. A Tesla spokesperson replied, as quoted by Electrek. “Since the release of Autopilot, we’ve continuously educated customers on the use of the features, reminding them that they’re responsible to keep their hands on the wheel and remain alert and present when using Autopilot. Drivers must be prepared to take control at all times.”

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