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What's noteworthy of this news event is the involvement of an autonomous vehicle. People are being killed in accidents constantly. We aren't going to be in a
by newnewpdro 9y ago
What's noteworthy of this news event is the involvement of an autonomous vehicle.
People are being killed in accidents constantly. We aren't going to be in a constant state of mourning over it.
This is implicitly a discussion about autonomous vehicles, and the very currently relevant and heated topic of wether we want these things on our streets.
- acover 9y ago40100 deaths in 2017. Averaging 110 per day.
- noobermin 9y agoAccording to this[0], I reckon there are 16 cars (order of magnitude 10s at least) in the pilot down in Az. In almost a month, one has died. There are about 260M[1] cars in the us in 2015, so perhaps more today. That means there are ~4e-7 deaths per car per day. On the other hand, we have 1e-3 deaths per autonomous vehicles per day if we naively use the death of the person in this story. That means so far, autonomous vehicles have a rate of killing people a ~2500 times that of normal cars. Of course, it's one data point, but out the gate, it's not looking so strong. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14687346/uber-self-driving-car-arizona-pilot-ducey-california https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14687346/uber-self-drivin... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...
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