It’s ‘inevitable’ that a self-driving car will kill someone. Here’s why a VC thinks we should be investing in them anyway. (BA, GOOGL, TSLA)
People have already died as a result of failures in transportation-related autonomous systems and more will likely die in the future.
While incidents such as the crash of an Uber self-driving car last year and that of two Boeing 737 Max airplanes in the last six months concern Shahin Farshchi, they haven’t dissuaded him about the potential for autonomy, particularly when it comes to vehicles. Farshchi’s firm, Lux Capital, has made numerous bets on self-driving cars and related technologies, including in high-profile startup Zoox, and he’s open to more such investments in the future.
Deaths that result from failures in autonomous systems are tragedies, Farshchi, a partner at Lux, said in an interview with Business Insider on Monday. But accidents like those involving Uber and Boeing “would not dissuade us or scare us or make us less interested in investing in these kinds of technologies.
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