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Road safety is a regulation problem first and foremost, we could have safer roads today if we cared. Also, less cars are needed on the roads, not more and espec
by a_imho 8y ago
Road safety is a regulation problem first and foremost, we could have safer roads today if we cared.
Also, less cars are needed on the roads, not more and especially not driverless ones.
- notahacker 8y agoYep. There is substantial evidence to suggest that better road design stricter driving standards enforcement changes lives. There is no evidence other than exponential curve worship to believe that driverless cars on the existing road network will ever be less lethal than the surprisingly high benchmark for sober drivers, and plenty of reason to believe they will increase car use. Waymo demonstrating their cars are surprisingly competent and less aggressive than human road users is very different from demonstrating their AI is smart enough to make a fatal errors less frequently than every half billion miles in real world driving conditions.
- tim333 8y agoPeople do care and the roads are getting safer but it's a gradual process and has limits.