Would you trust a self driving car

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If Telsa the electric car manufacturer start bringing out a self driving transport service alternative to Uber and Taxis would you be comfortable using one.

They say they will bring them out in coming years and by 10 years it will be fully up and running in the public transport industry.

I honestly wouldn't feel comfortable going in a self driving car. Something about putting my life in the hands of technology I just could never bring myself to trust. I've had too many problems with household electronics to know anything driven electronical can never be trusted. Would you use one. I can sense this as being a distaster and can't see it ever happening.
 

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Isn't it a little insane that we happily jump in to Ubers and taxis and buses with human drivers?

Like, whenever I get into an Uber, I have no idea how good this person is as a driver. Do they know the road rules? Have they been drinking? Could they be distracted by their phone and crash? I'm literally putting my life in the hands of someone I met 10 minutes ago. A human that is prone to mistakes and has emotions. They could be a suicidal psycho who decides to crash the car into a tree at 150 km/h with me inside, and there's nothing I could do to stop it. Hundreds of people have been killed because some airline pilots decide to go off the deep end and commit murder-suicide.

So yeah, I would trust a robot driver... much more so than a human.
 
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Now? Probably not.

In 10 years? Sure. We put trust into other people on a daily basis, when you're crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing, when you drive through a green light etc. You're trusting other drivers to stop at the crossing or red light so they don't hit you. Why? because they're bound by rules. Just as computers are, and in fact they're bound by rules and only rules, whereas with humans there's no certainty that a human will abide by them.
 

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It will never be perfect, but there will come a point where we will all trust self driving cars more than human drivers; just like the time came I trusted Hawkeye more than Steve Bucknor to make good LBW decisions.
 
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