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I would buy a car guaranteed to drive as safely as I do, except autonomously. I'd do it in a heartbeat, and millions of people would line up behind me. It's not
by quotemstr 7y ago
I would buy a car guaranteed to drive as safely as I do, except autonomously. I'd do it in a heartbeat, and millions of people would line up behind me. It's not lack of customer demand that's keeping autonomous vehicles out of the hands of the public. It's risk-averse bureaucracy.
- wpietri 7y agoWhat's being discussed is not driving as safely as you do. It's as safe as the average driver. Or, more accurately, a company claiming it's as safe as the average driver, which is why I said "probably". Most people consider themselves above-average drivers: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/when-it-comes-to-driving-most-people-think-their-skills-are-above-average.html https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/when-it-comes... So it seems pretty reasonable that any car that just kills the same number of people as the population average (which includes drunk drivers, tired drivers, distracted drivers, etc) will be seen as worse as worse driver than the person purchasing the car. And I think it's a given that regulators, and the general public, who are the ones who will be hit by the self-driving cars, will see an automated car that only kills 37k people/year as a non-starter.