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And still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road. We are still busy making self-driving cars follow the rules, but muc

And still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road. We are still busy making self-driving cars follow the rules, but much of the driving is to predict how other people bend them...

GFischer 11y ago
"still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road" I don't think they cope that well. If you're under 35, a car accident is your main worry (other than suicide): Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 33,000 people died from motor vehicle crashes in 2013 alone http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--deaths-registered-in-england-and-wales--series-dr-/2012/sty-causes-of-death.html http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--de...
- alexandrerond 11y ago
  In fact you're right. The thing is, can you imagine sitting on a self-driving car minding your business in a busy road shared with human drivers? Since not all cars will be automated, the success depends on convincing everyone that they're still safer in a world dominated by all the other shitty drivers. I read somewhere that Google cars accidents had always been caused by the other person. Question is, would a human have "seen it coming"? Can a human judge that someone is driving agressively, or shyly better than a computer? Can a human infer from a slow-driving car that it is probably trying to park despite not using the blinkers? And which such informations, make better decisions to avoid others being imprudent? Still, probably most accidents are to blame on the drivers themselves and their own mistakes and self-driving cars would fix that, but what probably is really going to count if you want to sell such car is probably the "sense of security" you can get rather than the hard stats. That's why I don't see fully self-driving cars being adopted by anyone anytime soon as some pretend, and it is much more realistic to think of forms of "assisted driving" (where you still have to drive and pay attention) and still need driving controls in the vehicle.

GFischer 11y ago

"still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road" I don't think they cope that well. If you're under 35, a car accident is your main worry (other than suicide): Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 33,000 people died from motor vehicle crashes in 2013 alone http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--deaths-registered-in-england-and-wales--series-dr-/2012/sty-causes-of-death.html http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--de...

alexandrerond 11y ago
In fact you're right. The thing is, can you imagine sitting on a self-driving car minding your business in a busy road shared with human drivers? Since not all cars will be automated, the success depends on convincing everyone that they're still safer in a world dominated by all the other shitty drivers. I read somewhere that Google cars accidents had always been caused by the other person. Question is, would a human have "seen it coming"? Can a human judge that someone is driving agressively, or shyly better than a computer? Can a human infer from a slow-driving car that it is probably trying to park despite not using the blinkers? And which such informations, make better decisions to avoid others being imprudent? Still, probably most accidents are to blame on the drivers themselves and their own mistakes and self-driving cars would fix that, but what probably is really going to count if you want to sell such car is probably the "sense of security" you can get rather than the hard stats. That's why I don't see fully self-driving cars being adopted by anyone anytime soon as some pretend, and it is much more realistic to think of forms of "assisted driving" (where you still have to drive and pay attention) and still need driving controls in the vehicle.