Someday, as we whiz down the road in our levitating mag-lev self-driving orb-cars while spending times with friends in Virtual World, we’ll look back on that bygone era of early self-driving cars and chuckle at their primitive technology, like that time in Las Vegas when they deployed an early self-driving shuttle bus, and one of the first things it did was get hit by a truck driven by a careless human.
The self-driving people mover was on the road for just over an hour when it apparently came to a stop near a delivery truck that was backing up. Problem was it stayed stopped as the human driver of the truck promptly backed into it at low speed. Fortunately, no one was hurt in either vehicle. So… who’s fault was it?
The city of Las Vegas weighed in by saying that if the human-driven delivery truck would have had the same sensor suite – and by extension, a robot driver – like the robotic shuttle, there would not have been a collision. Supporters of human drivers might claim that if a fleshy bio-pod would have been at the wheel of the shuttle, it would’ve backed the vehicle out of harm’s way. So, self-driving vehicles are the future? They are. But maybe not quite the immediate future. Story:
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