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If solution does not solve anything, what's the point of the „solution“? Most of the deaths on the road I hear in my country are the result of someone doing som
by rimliu 9y ago
If solution does not solve anything, what's the point of the „solution“?
Most of the deaths on the road I hear in my country are the result of someone doing something really reckless and stupid. „Normal“ drivers do not kill themselves or others. So if self-driving car is only as good as a dumb driver — I do not want these cars on the road.
Also, interetingly enough there is little talk about human driver assisted by technology, not replaced by it. For some reason it is binary: either humand driver or self-driving. How about some human drivers plus collsion avoidance system, infrared sensing system (way too many people die there simply becaue they walk on the road in the dark without any reflectors/lights), etc.
- kerkeslager 9y ago> If solution does not solve anything, what's the point of the „solution“? Most of the deaths on the road I hear in my country are the result of someone doing something really reckless and stupid. „Normal“ drivers do not kill themselves or others. So if self-driving car is only as good as a dumb driver — I do not want these cars on the road. If self-driving cars are between dumb drivers and normal drivers, and self-driving cars take dumb drivers off the road, it may be a net positive.
- c22 9y agoNot if they also take normal drivers off the road...
- kerkeslager 9y agoThat depends how many dumb drivers it takes off the road compared to normal drivers, and the relative percentages of accidents caused by each. Let's say we have 9 normal drivers and 1 dumb driver. The 9 normal drivers cause 0 accidents per year each, and the 1 dumb driver causes 15 accidents per year. Let's say autonomous cars cause 1 accident per year. If autonomous cars replace all the drivers, there's 10 accidents per year instead of 15. Obviously these are hypothetical numbers. All I'm saying is that if you only have one of these numbers, you don't know which kind of driver is safer.
- c22 9y agoI guess I'm just working on anecdotes and guesswork here, but I always assumed the vast majority of drivers are pretty reasonable most of the time. I imagine if this were not the case the clusterfuck on the roads would be considerably worse than what I see in practice. It is certainly true that the dumb drivers heavily outweigh the sane ones in my memories of traffic, but I also know the details of more plane crashes than successful flights.
- 7dare 9y agoMaybe simply because "normal" people cause accidents, it's not newsworthy enough for you to hear about it?