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The problem is that deaths per mile driven are currently much higher for self driving cars than humans. We don't have to just accept it. Progress can be made
by smallgovt 8y ago
The problem is that deaths per mile driven are currently much higher for self driving cars than humans. We don't have to just accept it. Progress can be made while still being safe -- at least, safer than how the free market would act.
> The NHTSA reports a fatality rate of 1.25 deaths per 100 million miles[2], twenty five times the [4 million miles] Uber has driven.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620736
- smileysteve 8y agoOne of the issues is that the car's stock system was disabled;
- JimmyAustin 8y agoAbsolutely not an issue. The last thing you want when developing a prototype piece of software for a 1 ton chunk of metal is another bit of software plugged in that you dont control or understand.
- hopler 8y agoThat's nonsense. The car had a human backup driver and human pedestrians, all not under the autonomous cars control. An automatic emergency brake doesn't prevent a computer or human driver from braking when it wants to. If the autonomous system can't even avoid interaction with emergency brake, the prototype belongs in a lab, not on a public road.