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The Uber crash has shown us that the public tolerance for AVs killing people is somewhere lower than presumptively around 30x more dangerous than the mean human
by aetherson 8y ago
The Uber crash has shown us that the public tolerance for AVs killing people is somewhere lower than presumptively around 30x more dangerous than the mean human driver.
Uber had a fatality after 3 million miles of driving.
The mean fatality rate is approximately 1 per 100 million miles of driving.
It's a sample size of one, so the error bars are big, but it drives me insane that people are acting like the Uber cars are the ideal driverless cars of the imagined future, and are super safe. The available data (which is limited, but not that limited) is that Uber driverless cars are much, much, much more dangerous than mean human drivers.