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>How does that number compare with humans? Well, regular people in the USA have about 6 million accidents per year reported to the police, which means about onc
by bduerst 11y ago
>How does that number compare with humans? Well, regular people in the USA have about 6 million accidents per year reported to the police, which means about once every 500,000 miles.
Aren't accidents only reported to police if there is a hit & run, or some other criminal activity?
Seems like the wrong metric for comparison, given the way they define the self-driving "accidents" and that the majority of human fender benders are not reported.
- cheald 11y agoNot necessarily. Major accidents will have the police involved, small fender benders might be handled with just an exchange of insurance information. If there's substantial damage though, the police will probably get involved since a police report makes collecting on insurance easier.
- HCIdivision17 11y agoIt's not uncommon to contact the police so that a quick statement can be made and the paperwork logged. It seems to help with the insurance stuff and getting a third-party's eye on the scene.
- dsp1234 11y agoIn some(most/all?) states, all accidents over a certain dollar amount or that caused injury to any party are required to be reported to the police. But the lack of police reports is why the article mentions that insurance companies believe the accident rate is higher than the 'official' number. Anecdotally, the number of times that someone has hit my car, and then asked me not to report it in exchange for cash is non-zero.