"It is widely known that it's extremely difficult for humans to remain vigilant when monitoring systems for rare events."
It may be difficult to remain vigilant, but it's not difficult to stay off of your phone while you're at the wheel.
There are signs all over the road and commercials on tv telling people that texting and driving kills. Being on your phone while you're driving is illegal for that reason.
Having a self-driving car on the road with a car operator is legal. There are many companies with self-driving cars on the road that have higher intervention rates than Uber.
We'll never know whether that woman would've been saved if the car operator wasn't on their phone. We do know that what the car operator did was illegal.
How do you know she was on her phone? Was anything released on that regard? All we know is that she's looking down, I assumed it could be to some self-driving debug screen.
It may be difficult to remain vigilant, but it's not difficult to stay off of your phone while you're at the wheel.
There are signs all over the road and commercials on tv telling people that texting and driving kills. Being on your phone while you're driving is illegal for that reason.
Having a self-driving car on the road with a car operator is legal. There are many companies with self-driving cars on the road that have higher intervention rates than Uber.
We'll never know whether that woman would've been saved if the car operator wasn't on their phone. We do know that what the car operator did was illegal.