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The corner cases are extremely important and are only "rare" relative to the overall number of people driving. When you have 100MM cars (not a researched numbe
by dcherman 11y ago
The corner cases are extremely important and are only "rare" relative to the overall number of people driving. When you have 100MM cars (not a researched number) on the road, that one in a million chance happens 100 times every day!
I've had this same argument at work a few times and although I fully admit the idea of a self driving car may be safer in the future, you will not be seeing me in the first few generations of these cars. I generally don't consider myself a luddite, but this is one area where I will prefer manual control for quite a while.
- sangnoir 11y agoI don't think anyone claims any computer systems are 100% safe. However, I think they will be much safer than human drivers. I, for one, will take the one in a million chance of a computer error over the probability of encountering a drunk/fatigued/distracted driver any day
- msandford 11y ago> However, I think they will be much safer than human drivers. I think they'll be much safer than the worst human drivers. I doubt they'll be much safer than the best human drivers. Yes they won't fatigue or get bored or change the radio. But they also don't have any insight, just rules and machine learning. That limits their ability to predict.
- sangnoir 11y agoWhich do you think you have a higher chance of encountering: a computer glitch or a bad/impaired human driver?