Fatalities vs. False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes
The upside of self driving vehicles is so immense that I can&#x27;t help but find in favor of giving leeway to companies developing this tech. I would vote legislation limiting the accident liability of &#x27;qualified&#x27; companies developing self driving tech. No, I don&#x27;t know what separates &#x27;qualified&#x27; from &#x27;not qualified&#x27;.<p>Try looking at this a different way: there were 37,461 vehicle related fatalities in 2016 in the US alone.  In the current risk-averse climate, would we - over the early 1900&#x27;s - ever allowed the development of public infrastructure to support an invention leading to so many fatalities?  Likely not, but the benefit we enjoy from motorized transportation far outweighs the cost of those 37k yearly lives.  The point is that continuing with a risk-averse, liability-obsessed development culture will stifle invention that can otherwise lead to great quality of life improvements.