Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

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EdwardZ in reply to @Howard

Plenty of people have been killed by robots - but this is probably the first case of a random death of a random person in public by a semi autonomous robot, as opposed to death of an employee in a workplace. Or a combatant. Etc.

Many people have been killed by semi-autonomous drones. This has often been the intent-- although all too often targets are misread. Real automonomus killer robots, however, are slowing entering the market. Kalashnikov Group, for example, has revealed it has developed a set of fully-automated combat robots. They are not alone.

That said.. I think most of the deaths we will come to associate with self-driving cars, trucks and other autonomous vehicles (such as delivery drones) will be from depression, despair. The current wave of taxi driver suicides in NYC is just the start.. With millions of people employed as drivers....

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Howard in reply to @EdwardZ

Yeah hense combatants.

Is there a source / list of all known ‘random people killed by semi autonomous non military robots in public where failure of the robot to act as intended was the primary contributor to the death ’?

Maybe auto pilots. Hmmm this shit is complicated. Where does programming stop and AI / robots begin...

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branwen in reply to @Howard

(Although I guess you could probably argue that the deaths, such as they are are, are intentional) (actually thinking about it, does anyone actually get explicitly killed in the Terminator films?)

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