Kindly consider my words - I'm not insulting technology, I'm pointing out corporate greed:
The proportion of self-driving cars that have hit people is already greater than the proportion of human-driven cars that have hit people.
The fact that the Volvo hit someone is not because it was programmed incorrectly. It was because it was responding correctly to its configuration as its producers envisioned it:
It ignores and runs over pedestrians unless the owner pays Volvo extra.
In the future everyone's dreaming of, cars won't hit people, but they will continue to hit people unless owners pay extra to corporations. That's not progress, that's extortion.
The fact that the Volvo hit someone is not because it was programmed incorrectly. It was because it was responding correctly to its configuration as its producers envisioned it:
It ignores and runs over pedestrians unless the owner pays Volvo extra.
In the future everyone's dreaming of, cars won't hit people, but they will continue to hit people unless owners pay extra to corporations. That's not progress, that's extortion.