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> So human drivers wouldn't crash here? Or a good, attentive, best-case human driver wouldn't crash here? I'd argue that a Reasonable Person [1] wouldn't crash

• stetrain 8y ago
  I think that's actually a really good method to apply in these cases, and I agree. However I also think that the roads are currently occupied by many people who fall below that standard. Should a car with assistive technologies only be a success if it is as good as a reasonable person, or if it is better than a typical person? Obviously the former is prefereable to the latter, but people seem much more content with the idea of driving themselves into walls (or another typical person on the road might crash into them and cause that outcome) than with the idea that a computer might do that same. See also fear of flying vs driving even though flying is demonstrably safer, but feels much more out of the hands of the flyer.