My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed by Raffi Krikorian discusses two important concepts:
- vigilance decrement – people’s gradual drop in paying attention and ability to spot mistakes, the better a system is at avoiding them
- the moral crumple zone – who absorbs the moral/legal liability, when there is a problem
The combination of those is at the heart of the challenging legal landscape surrounding self-driving cars. But, this is relevant in lots of contexts, where automation and autonomous agents play a role.