Proceeds to write a good half-dozen posts blaming the victim and her circumstance, and minimizing the responsibility of the people operating the massive vehicle. Thoughts and prayers, all around.
Here’s the thing: a city is full of a wide variety of people, in various circumstances, all the time. Some of those people are on foot, some of them are on bikes, some of them are even in strollers. If that fact isn’t acknowledged at a very fundamental level of your heuristics, then what’s the point of swapping out the person driving the car?
Here’s a reality check for autonomous cars: they will probably be utilized for freeway traffic only, and require a hand-off to a human hands when operating on city streets, for the foreseeable future. Liability is going to remain in the hands of the vehicle operator, which means insurance companies are going to determine who gets to use autonomous cars and who doesn’t.
