The Lose-Lose Ethics of Testing Self-Driving Cars in Public

Here’s the strange thing about where I live: When I walk outside my office, down to busy, honk-filled four-lane road that runs by it, I’m immediately part of a wide scale science experiment. A lot of us are, here in San Francisco, in metro Phoenix, Arizona, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We didn’t sign any forms or cast any votes, but here we are, in a living lab for self-driving tech.

A lot of the time, that’s exciting. One day, maybe crossing the street on foot at night won’t feeling like taking your life into your hands. This really could be the way to stop the deaths of 40,000 people on US roads every year. The blind, the old, those who can’t operate vehicles–their lives might shift wholly in a world where vehicles drive themselves.

Aarian Marshall

https://www.wired.com/story/lose-lose-ethics-self-driving-public/