THE HUMAN PROBLEM: Proponents of driverless cars will need to answer these questions

摘要

one of the most interesting things about new technology is how people interact with it once it's let loose in the ecosystem. There are millions of ways that flawed, messy, some-times inconsiderate humans can mess up a perfectly good utopian scenario. Take autonomous cars, the next big perfect-society plan coming our way. People already are able to hail a self-driven Uber in parts of Pittsburgh. Right now, there's an engineer behind the wheel who can step in if anything goes wrong. In theory, that engineer also can make sure the human passengers are behaving.