I predict that in a few years, driving will be considered a high risk sport, only.
With autonomous cars already driving x10 safer than humans, people getting hurt or killed by human drivers will be considered avoidable victims of selfish, thrill-seeking idiots.
The article you quoted here describes a case where apparently somebody was thrown under a self-driving car by a normal car. That doesn't sound like the "robo taxi" did anything wrong or worse than the best driver could have done.
it’s important to remind people about the dangers of robo taxis from a surveillance perspective
safety comes at a cost
and if the car didn’t exist it would have never trapped her
I totally agree on the implications for our freedoms but all modern cars appear to be surveillance tools, not only the self-driving ones. Cars that estimate your fitness to drive by filming your face, cars that unlock with your fingerprint and store your whereabouts in real time, ...
But given almost all of use are using either Google or Apple phones all the time, all this is not really tilting the scale much.
We already live in a panopticon.
a dissident free world sounds very boring
