Driverless Cars Immune From Traffic Tickets in California Under Current Laws
Does the state need new laws and new watchdogs to govern the technology’s rapid expansion?
“I think all of us are still struggling to understand whether [driverless cars] really are safer than human drivers and in what ways they might not be,” said Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
“It seems like while they make fewer of the kind of mistakes that we see from human drivers, they make interesting new kinds of mistakes,” Raicu said. “It has the feel of a human subject mass experiment, right? Without the kind of consent that we usually want to see as part of that.”
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NBC News. This story also appears in several outlets including Yahoo! Finance.