“There’s immense frustration,” says Philip Gomm, of the RAC Foundation, a UK organisation that studies road safety issues. It is not cars, car culture or bad, car-centric planning that kill pedestrians. In 2009, when Google launched its self-driving car lab, it was staffed almost entirely by participants in the military contests. Again, the central concern was not road safety, let alone pedestrian safety. “We picked off a lot of the low-hanging fruit,” says Joshua Harris of Brake, a UK road safety charity.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2019 04:52 UTC