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Self driving cars do not represent a correlated risk. The situation you describe is completely fanciful. There is no plausible circumstance in which a large num
by darawk 8y ago
Self driving cars do not represent a correlated risk. The situation you describe is completely fanciful. There is no plausible circumstance in which a large number of cars would simultaneously crash.
- neolefty 8y agoA 0-day vulnerability in their OS, exploited ...
- jcranmer 8y agoHere's a link to a 100-car pileup: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/02/05/stunning-drone-footage-shows-massive-100-vehicle-pileup-on-snow-covered-highway/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cf2a0b91ae70 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/02/0... These kinds of crashes generally have the some root cause: everybody is traveling too fast for conditions, and when one thing goes wrong, the end result is that you get a chain reaction of everyone accreting into a single crash. If self-driving cars are capable of making the same misjudgements, then these kinds of crashes absolutely can happen.
- darawk 8y agoSure, but you can't criticize SDC's by saying that they have the same failure modes as humans. The comment I was referring to was suggesting that they'd have some sort of mass failure mode, in which some substantial percentage of all operating SDC's in an area would crash simultaneously. That is clearly not going to happen.