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> Good, then don't get a self-driving car, why do you need regulations for that? Self-driving cars are more dangerous to the other people sharing the road than
by eridius 9y ago
> Good, then don't get a self-driving car, why do you need regulations for that?
Self-driving cars are more dangerous to the other people sharing the road than the passengers in them.
- Fricken 9y agoThere's no statistically useful data on that and there won't be for some time.
- eridius 9y agoWell the point I was trying to make was that cars are a danger to everyone else on the road, not just to their passengers, so you can't just say "don't get a self-driving car" in response to someone talking about the risks of self-driving cars, as you can't control whether any of the other cars on the road are self-driving cars.
- cwp 9y agoSure there is. Data on accidents involving human drivers is statistically useful for estimating risks from self-driving cars. Yes, driving machines are likely to be better at driving than humans. But there a ton of other factors which are the same. The cars are the same shape, size, weight and materials as cars driven by humans. They drive on the same roads, in the same weather with the same passengers. It's true that we don't yet know how well self-driving cars will perform at scale. To say that we have no idea what risks are associated with them, or that they pose no risk to anyone but the passengers is ridiculous.