Comment Re:Human drivers (Score 1) 38
Who knows? It's not the issue in this case however.
Practically speaking; it's going to happen. Self driving cars are going to kill people. Even if a million times better then human drivers; it will happen. Lots of debate about how dangerous they are at the moment - some say safer; some not so sure. More data is definitely needed. In the long run it's almost certainly going to be better.
The car in this case detected it had hit something (good). Then it decided to to drive to the side of the road (in this case bad). Throw some more compute at the problem and we can probably make it handle that case correctly (hit a box -> drive to the side of the road; hit a person -> stay still; hit a deer -> ???)
Cruise screwed up by hiding the later bit.