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If safe, reliable, autonomous driving is a decade away that’s half a million lives lost. If it’s two decades away then a million. The incentives are there to m
by zaroth 7y ago
If safe, reliable, autonomous driving is a decade away that’s half a million lives lost. If it’s two decades away then a million.
The incentives are there to make this work. The funding is there to make this work. The technology is actually there to make this work, if you can change some of the rules to get there.
It’s worth over a trillion dollars annually to make this work. It’s the great infrastructure product of the 2020s and we should get fucking started already.
- asdff 7y agoAre self driving cars going to eliminate traffic deaths? Tesla already has a body count.
- zaroth 7y agoEliminate totally? Of course not. But we have a long way to go before 1 fatality per 1 billion miles would be a bad thing. That would be an order of magnitude improvement. I think we can get two orders of magnitude in 10 years. Autonomy absolutely will have a body count. It cannot save every single driver. And so if we want to be able to enjoy the benefits of autonomy that saves almost every single driver, we better get comfortable with the notion that some people will die in self driving cars. If we can’t accept that the technology will never be perfect we will just keep dooming 30,000 people (in the US alone) to die each year, not to mention countless maimings (2 million actually) and property damage.