The buzz: “It’s too dangerous. You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.” (Elon Musk, 2015)
By 2022, about 1% of the total vehicles on the world’s roads could be 10 million autonomous vehicles. The debate about whether driver intervention is possible is rapidly becoming moot. Expecting a driver who is not aware, to suddenly become aware and intercede in a unique circumstance, is preposterous. Humans must create the algorithms needed for fully autonomous driving. With increasing machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, only the morality needs to be supplied by
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