
Guest Post by Paul Kostek (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)
You’ve no doubt read about Google’s driverless car and the effort at the state level to gain permission for its use on public roads.
Driverless Car Risks
There are the obvious concerns and risks with operating a driverless car, though Google does have someone sitting behind the wheel, just in case. Of course, can a person just along for the ride respond fast enough to a problem? This becomes one of the risk areas needing to be addressed before full adoption of driverless vehicles. Integrated with Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) we’ll see vehicles and roads sharing data with each other to produce safer travel and relief of congestion. [Read more…]