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> There's this belief that humans are horrible at driving, etc, etc. Until you run that math and realize, no, they're not. There's just a lot of driving going o
by erobbins 8y ago
> There's this belief that humans are horrible at driving, etc, etc. Until you run that math and realize, no, they're not. There's just a lot of driving going on.
I've been hammering this concept for a while :) Unimpaired, non distracted humans are actually really good at driving. We're optimized for processing visual inputs and making fuzzy decisions, have high dexterity and coordination, and fear death. All of that is alien to software.
- ufmace 8y agoOddly enough, even impaired drivers are probably pretty good compared to some current self-driving cars. I'd give good odds that someone with a 0.10% BAC would have swerved or stopped for that woman that the Uber car hit.
- coding123 8y agoYep sadly too the Uber car didn't even slow after the hit, so even a drunk person probably would have done different things... Enough maybe to be non-fatal. Not saying we should replace Ubers sdv fleet with drunk drivers obviously the entire program is scrapped now.