Self-driving cars are set to dramatically reduce accident rates as well as injuries and deaths from those accidents. But as they roll out and become more commonplace, they’re probably going to get some people killed. In fact, there are already early reports of fatalities caused by self-driving cars; tests of Uber’s fully autonomous vehicles have resulted in both injuries and deaths, and…
In 2017, Waymo CEO John Krafcik told tech conferences that “Fully self-driving cars are here.” The next year, however, at a Wall Street Journal panel with the title “Are we there yet?” Krafcik said that so-called “Level Five” self-driving cars were…