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Or if you're, say, building a system for self-driving cars. This Silicon Valley arrogance and recklessness has killed people. It's not just academic.
by asdguiuiobuibui 8y ago
Or if you're, say, building a system for self-driving cars.
This Silicon Valley arrogance and recklessness has killed people. It's not just academic.
- jimbofisher1 8y agoDon't understand the hang up about this. Self Driving cars were always going to kill people. It's not possible to be 100% safe but even a minute improvement over human drivers would save thousands of lives a year.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoUber has had a fatal accident with only a few million miles driven when an average human will go more like a hundred million miles per fatality. I don't understand why people insist on believing that they are already more safe than human drivers when the evidence suggests that they are currently much, much less safe.
- jimbofisher1 8y agoI'm sorry where did I imply they were already safer? I think it's obvious they will continue to improve and surpassing human level is not far away.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoNonsense. Uber's self-driving cars currently have something like 30x the fatality rate of an average driver and that is in cherry-picked locations that they chose for testing and with a human driver constantly watching it to take over when it does something wrong. There is no evidence that they are anywhere close to surpassing human drivers.
- jimbofisher1 8y agoGiven a sample size of 1 I don't think there's much to be discerned form the data at all either way. > There is no evidence that they are anywhere close to surpassing human... Famous last words.
- im3w1l 8y agoAnd even a slight worsening could be a worthwhile tradeoff for the economic gains it would give us.