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Current self-driving cars are already orders of magnitude safer than human drivers. I agree convenience is likely the largest driving factor but safety is defin
by rodiger 7y ago
Current self-driving cars are already orders of magnitude safer than human drivers. I agree convenience is likely the largest driving factor but safety is definitely emphasized.
- sib 7y agoI think we should all be able to agree that there are no commercially-available "current self-driving cars" - there are cars with ADAS, but they are far from self-driving. And if you tried to let your "self-driving car" actually drive itself on the typical routes that a person takes through the course of a month (not on a closed course), you would never arrive, either because you died in a crash or because the car gave up. (NB: I own a Tesla Model 3 and have the various "self driving" options.)
- akgerber 7y agoPer what data? Human-driven cars cause 1.25 deaths per 100 million VMT in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U... Even Waymo is nowhere near 100M miles driven: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsilver/2018/07/26/waymo-has-the-most-autonomous-miles-by-a-lot/#c0edf7ee53b8 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsilver/2018/07/26/waymo-ha... There's not nearly enough data to make a claim like that.