There is no doubt that technology has changed the way humans live. A lot of things which were hard to imagine in past are now becoming true and the credit goes to the growth of technology in recent years. Like every other beneficial thing, technology also has some negatives.
Recently, companies are working on the self-driving cars and a lot of development in this field has already been done. A bad news for the technology lovers has come from Arizona, USA where a woman named Elaine Herzberg has died due to a self-driving Uber car which struck the 49-year-old lady.
A safety driver was appointed but Uber has confirmed that the vehicle was in autonomous mode during the accident. The incident has already created a lot of buzz on social media networks and people are opposing this new technology due to the flaws it has.
The self-driving partners of Uber have not spoken anything about this and Uber has stopped all its ongoing tests on self-driving cars. Investigation to find the reason for this crash has already started and it has shaken the confidence of people who were favouring this technology by saying that self-driving cars are a great way to avoid traffic problems.
Uber car incident is the first known big collision between a self-driving car and a pedestrian. Earlier, a driver lost his life in 2016 when a Tesla struck a truck while in Autopilot mode.
Technology experts are seeing self-driving as the future but the issues should be solved before launching it on the real roads. Also, if a product made from a popular company like Uber can face such problems then we can say that the implementation of this technology should be checked correctly because we can not afford the loss of lives just for the sake of using a new technology.
