Apart from enabling more leisurely rides, autonomous driving is pitched as a way to reduce accidents. What tends to get lost in there is that, even if the data could establish that AI vehicles kill fewer people than regular intelligence vehicles, the idea of being killed or injured by a robot is just more horrific
Dubai will begin trial runs of automated self-driving taxis next month along Jumeirah Road. The taxis, operated by US-based Cruise, will initially run without human passengers. Dubai plans to have full commercial operations of the driverless taxis by next year and aims for 25% of all trips in the city to be smart and driverless by 2030. If successful, Dubai will become the second city outside the US to operate Cruise self-driving vehicles commercially.
This week, Zoox, Amazon.com's self-driving vehicle unit, said it has successfully tested a robotaxi on a public road with its employees serving as passengers