> It is obviously troubling to see self driving cars run into solid and stationary objects, but human drivers do that all the time too. The question shouldn't b

> It is obviously troubling to see self driving cars run into solid and stationary objects, but human drivers do that all the time too. The question shouldn't be whether this technology is perfect, it should be whether this technology is safer than humans. You and I certainly don't have enough data to say one way or another on that. I would bet even Tesla doesn't have enough data to say definitively. However writing this tech off as unsafe just because it makes what seems like an obvious mistake is a great way to slow progress which will result in more human deaths long term. And where is the research to show that? To prove that within any significance, they would have to have millions and millions of miles to compare against human drivers. This is new technology and making false claims about its safety is dangerous. We as a society force drug companies to rigorously show that their drugs do what they say they do and all of their side effects are properly accounted for. This should be the case here too.