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I agree that the bar for safety should be ~10x human-level. But I also find it interesting, because that should be a moving target. Eg if we realize humans ofte
by wrsh07 11y ago
I agree that the bar for safety should be ~10x human-level. But I also find it interesting, because that should be a moving target. Eg if we realize humans often rear end the car in front of them, and fix that with "auto braking", then we'll improve how safe human drivers are.
Thus, hopefully, both humans and self-driving cars should have improving records [although I don't have any data to back this up].
- J-dawg 11y agoYou've raised an important point here: the 'human vs self-driving car' is something of a false dichotomy. The human driving experience will become more and more augmented by technology, with auto-braking, lane-assist, smart cruise control and (eventually) auto-navigation until we have almost-self-driving cars which are still legally required to have a qualified human in the driver's seat. Many of the these features already exist in high-end cars. People will be much happier to hit the 'auto' button and climb into the back seat when they've already had several years of 'almost-auto' driving.