[postalrat]

It could also be a life-taker when it calls 911 and takes resources that could have been used for saving a life.

[P5fRxh5kUvp2th]

yep.

It's the hubris of tech people to think everything can be solved (or made better) with technology.

[tomcam]

Let me try playing devil's advocate (with zero inside info). Isn't it possible that more lives are saved such that it's worth the false alarms?

It is obvious to me that these decisions will become more and more difficult. I am certain that at some point (not sure if 10 years from now or 50) driverless tech will be safer than people--by a margin of say 99%. I am equally certain that this will be accompanied by a set of accidents unique to the driverless tech. I think of it as similar to compilers. When I started programming PCs assembly was always king. C got better and better. 10 years into my career C was mostly better. Now C/C++/Rust etc. almost never need code rewritten in ASM.

[P5fRxh5kUvp2th]

Driverless vehicles don't go on rollercoasters, if they want to automatically phone in an emergency call they'll probably be able to do so reliably.

a phone in your pocket does not have that context.

[NaughtyShiba]

Aren’t new cars supposed to have that feature, which can automatically call emergency services on crash?

[P5fRxh5kUvp2th]

I would imagine so, but my newest vehicle is 2004 so I have no firsthand experience :)