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> Waymo just clicked its way past its 5 millionth self-driven mile a few days ago. 5 million miles and no fatal accidents. Just 5% of the way to when a _human_
by justinpombrio 9y ago
> Waymo just clicked its way past its 5 millionth self-driven mile a few days ago.
5 million miles and no fatal accidents. Just 5% of the way to when a _human_ driver (in the us) would expect a fatal accident. Fingers crossed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
- oldgradstudent 9y agoWaymo mostly drives in ideal conditions. You should expect human drivers to perform much better in those condition than on average.
- justinpombrio 9y agoWaymo also doesn't drive drunk, which is one of the major causes of human accidents.
- zhengyi13 9y ago... or distracted, or tired, or angry, or ridden with testosterone and a poor sense of risk...
- oldgradstudent 9y agoThe data about human drivers already accounts for drunk drivers. The real question is whether self-driving cars would be less dangerous than human drivers. I don't think the data so far has been convincing, to put it mildly. As far as I understand, the 5 million miles driven by Waymo were mostly under human supervision, so it does not tell us a lot on how safe those cars really are.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoPlus they can text while driving safely as can do true multi tasking unlike humans.