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I don't follow this that closely and I've tended to think of self-driving cars as an inevitable thing that results from march toward a "perfect" system. But I

I don't follow this that closely and I've tended to think of self-driving cars as an inevitable thing that results from march toward a "perfect" system. But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption that nothing bad will happen if you drive a car correctly and follow all of the rules, and I think that assumption might prove to be wrong and that collisions are an inherent aspect of driving a car in an unpredictable world. We as humans like to feel like we're in control of our lives, and I think that we have a prejudice toward looking at situations as if that were true, and that bad outcomes are the result of bad decisions instead of bad luck.

ghaff 8y ago
>But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption that nothing bad will happen if you drive a car correctly and follow all of the rules, and I think that assumption might prove to be wrong and that collisions are an inherent aspect of driving a car in an unpredictable world. That assumption is clearly wrong. There are other drivers but even leaving that aside for the distant day when most vehicles are autonomous. - Debris of various kinds - Mechanical failures of vehicles - Environmental factors, e.g. ice causing skids - Road damage - Animals etc.