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Trying to find some good statistics but looking around it seems a majority of accidents end up being caused by human error, distracted driving and drunk driving

Trying to find some good statistics but looking around it seems a majority of accidents end up being caused by human error, distracted driving and drunk driving. AI wouldn't have any of those so I'm personally confident that it'll have a much higher level of safety. The trouble is when we swap "human error" for "machine error". Because humans screw up all the time but a machine is going to fail in a way that'll likely be very obvious to us. That is going to be take an emotional toll, I think, and will be a hurdle to get over for self driving cars. No one wants to be told "sorry but your family died because of a bug in the car's software told it to make a left into a semi".

nawitus 9y ago
"AI wouldn't have any of those so I'm personally confident that it'll have a much higher level of safety." AI and perfect AI are different things.
- BinaryIdiot 9y ago
  Agreed but that doesn't make my statement incorrect :) I said AI wouldn't have the issues of human error, distracted and drunk driving. It opens up all new types of errors, sure, but it wouldn't have the biggest killers of people. So unless we screw up pretty badly here it almost has to be lower mortality rates.
taneq 9y ago
> Trying to find some good statistics but looking around it seems a majority of accidents end up being caused by human error, distracted driving and drunk driving. This is a big one that most people seem to miss: A self-driving car doesn't have to be better than an alert, conscientious human driver to be better than 90% of the actual complacent, distracted, tired humans on the road.