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Parent comment compares human crash rate (1/300,000 miles) to self-driving disengage rate (1/10,000 miles). With the assumption that the self-driving system wou
by ForHackernews 7y ago
Parent comment compares human crash rate (1/300,000 miles) to self-driving disengage rate (1/10,000 miles). With the assumption that the self-driving system would have crashed had the safety driver not intervened (a reasonably safe assumption, given the purpose of having a safety driver in the first place), this seems like a meaningful apples-to-apples comparison to me.
- perl4ever 7y agoI don't think that the general human crash rate is appropriate to compare. It makes more sense to compare, say, a professional bus driver. As it happens, my uncle drove for a living and I recall he had a plaque for a million miles without an accident.