The recently filed Tesla crash lawsuit involving the death of a human driver in a Tesla Model X provides a case in point on this kind of matter. You might recall the headline-making case last year of the Uber self-driving car incident that led to the unfortunate death of a pedestrian. It turned out that the Uber self-driving car engineers had previously disabled the inherent Volvo emergency braking capability, generically often referred to as Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB). Because the self-driving car engineers had devised their own AI-led emergency braking system and were concerned that having essentially two kinds of braking systems in the driverless car would lead to erratic behavior. As a human driver, you at times need to make the same kind of instantaneous decisions.

Source: Forbes May 05, 2019 15:33 UTC