Originally Posted by
Uplinker
There was an autonomous car that crashed recently, killing a person, because it couldn't tell the difference between a patch of bright sky and a white truck?
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Factually incorrect.
A specifically not autonomous car with a basic autopilot which has never ever claimed to be autonomous and is sold as "beta testing" hit a truck because despite warnings that it definitely was not autonomous and required constant supervision the driver did not pay attention.
Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot is twice as safe as humans
It is worth noting that with millions of miles on real roads already driven by these various prototypes and halfway-house cars, that despite the over-excitement by such as Uplinker, they have a better safety record than manned vehicles.
1 million per year die on the roads in cars driven by our perfect little brains. They don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better or equal.