First death linked to self-driving cars

Do you still believe they are safer than human drivers, and was this death avoidable?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43459156

So as it turns out the vehicle had the automatic braking disabled as was expecting a human to intervene, but the human driver was busy on their mobile phone....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/uber_self_driving_software_crash_report/

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