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>Fatalities will happen sometimes How many self-driving cars are there on the roads right now? And what's fatality rate? I' quite sure it's higher now than com
by akerro 9y ago
>Fatalities will happen sometimes
How many self-driving cars are there on the roads right now? And what's fatality rate? I' quite sure it's higher now than compared to human-only driver.
> they are unavoidable sometimes
Were autonomous cars not designed to prevent such situations?
>Let's, as a community, set the standard for how we will react to these events
Yes and let's punish non-conformists!
> which gets posted on HN whenever a self-driving article comes out.
I honestly have no idea what that comment is.
- Thaxll 9y agoProbably not since Google drove millions of KM without a single fatality.
- danso 9y agoAs of late 2017, Google/Waymo had recorded just 4 million miles of real-world self-driving in its entire history: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/waymo-racks-up-4-million-self-driven-miles/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/waymo-racks-up-4-million-s... NHTSA data measures number of fatalities by the hundreds of millions of miles driven -- the latest rate being 1.18 fatalities per 100 million miles: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fatal-traffic-crash-data https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...
- Frondo 9y agoYes, absolutely, let's ostracize people who react to this situation (a machine killing some random person in a fatal beta test) with anything other than compassion and humility. Those are not people I want in my engineering community; just impossible to trust they'd make the right calls and have the right priorities in developing cool new stuff.