AdvertisementMany people think self-driving cars should be better than human drivers, an industry executive said. "There's a difference between an accident caused by a human driver, and an accident caused by an autonomous system," said Majors. Advertisement"I think that the expectation is that they have to be a lot better than a human driver, because when there is an accident and the computer's involved, there's less empathy or understanding." Majors said that Motional, a Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture developing autonomous technology, had operated more than 2 million miles autonomously with no at-fault crashes. Cruise, which was trialing "robotaxi" services that ferried passengers around San Francisco without a human driver, was forced to recall its entire fleet late last year.

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Persons: Laura Majors, Motional, Cruise, —, Majors, Tesla, Elon Musk's, Robert Falck, " Falck Organizations: Hyundai, Tesla, Service, Economic, GM, Einride, Business Locations: San Francisco, Davos, Cruise, California