It's not just relatively new companies like Uber and Tesla that tell this story. Even General Motors CEO Mary Barra says self-driving cars can significantly avoid accidents and crashes caused by human behavior, and eventually lead to safer transportation. All the big car companies are heavily invested and working hard on this.
Almost all of us welcome the story, want to believe it. Who wouldn't want to take a nap or read a book while the car gets us safely to our destination. And yet, this far into the movement, there's a counter narrative.
Robbie Miller— the former Uber executive who, just days before an autonomous Uber struck and killed a pedestrian, warned the company of problems with their self-driving cars—says that the industry has “propelled us into the realm of safety theater—meaning creating the illusion of safety instead of actually delivering on safety.”
(cont'd tomorrow)
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