Here’s Why AI Self-Driving Cars Need A Special ‘Crash Mode’ Capability

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

[Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/]

Bam!

While innocently sitting at a red light, a car rammed into the rear of my car. I was not expecting it.

Things began to happen so quickly that I barely remember what actually did happen once the crash began.

Within just a few brisk seconds, my car was pushed into a car ahead of me, ripping the back and left-side of my car. The gas tank ruptured and gasoline leaked onto the ground, my airbag deployed, most of the windows fractured and bits of glass flew everywhere. Basically all heck broke loose.

This actually happened some years ago when I was a university professor.

Fortunately, none of us were badly injured, but if you saw a picture of my car after the incident, you’d believe that no one in my car should or could have survived the crash.

My car was totaled.

I think back to that crash and can readily talk about it today, but at the time it was quite a shocker.