Why could self-driving cars be a disaster for humanity?

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If Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are to be believed, drones will allow people to avoid traffic jams, the discomfort of cycling, and the dangers of public transportation. It is assumed that people will be able to travel from point A to point B and at the same time relax, have fun, etc.



However, urbanist Paris Marx is convinced that this is just an illusion and the spread of unmanned transport will only benefit corporations, but not ordinary people.

False promises
In January 2018, when self-driving cars were still in the spotlight, Marks wrote that they would be much later than the tech companies promised. Then, on the night of March 18, 2018, an Uber drone hit 49-year-old Elaine taiwan number data Herzberg while she was cycling on the road during a test run. At the time, all the blame fell on the controlling driver, who was not looking at the road at the time, but later this leak became evidence that Uber's team involved in self-driving technologies is under intense pressure. It became known that engineers had not programmed the system to recognize people crossing the road outside the pedestrian crossing. In Herzberg's case, the car could not understand what it saw ahead, so the car did not know how to react to the object. It did not expect to meet a person at that moment.

No one has been charged in the woman's death. In general, technology companies are rarely held accountable for the harm caused by their actions. But the incident has burst the bubble around drones: industry leaders have gone from promising to launch such machines in the near future to admitting that it could actually take several decades and that the maximum level five autonomy, at which cars can drive without human intervention in the process of driving, will probably never be achieved.