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I think it's ridiculous to espouse something like this when we have no real comparison of the safety of self-driving versus human driven cars as they exist righ

• xbmcuser 9y ago
  Level 5 autonomous driving means driving better than most humans so it automatically means safer.
  • Spivak 9y ago
    Which is a vacuously true statement because level 5 automation is practically defined as being better than human drivers. The problem is that they basically have to perform better than humans in all situations. As soon as someone dies from a crash that a human could have prevented -- like the Tesla that plowed into a semi because it was white and it couldn't distinguish it from the sky -- it's basically game over for consumer trust. If all we care about is safety then total automation is going to be fighting a losing battle against a machine assisted human drivers for a long time.
  • frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
    Which is why I'm speaking to the current state of self-driving. We should know how safe and unsafe it is and be regularly updated to how it is improving. The fact that there is a hype hurricane around self-driving but no apples to apples comparison to human drivers is a big red flag to me.
• ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  Ah, but making a post like this will get you tons of hype and views on the Internet including from tech news aggregators...