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Autonomous car's don't have to be nearly as safe as airplanes because existing cars are orders of magnitude less safe than airplanes.
by JamesBarney 7y ago
Autonomous car's don't have to be nearly as safe as airplanes because existing cars are orders of magnitude less safe than airplanes.
- jandrese 7y agoIsn't that one of the problems autonomous cars are trying to solve?
- stcredzero 7y agoWould just one order of magnitude improvement count as "solved?"
- kemitche 7y agoThe point is that cars don't need to make an immediate jump from "current levels of safety" to "plane levels of safety." Anything that moves the needle noticeably closer to "plane levels" is a solid improvement in terms of reducing unnecessary deaths.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhy do you think that autonomous cars will start by replacing the worst drivers, rather than replacing professional drivers, who are much better than the average person? Isn't the biggest potential initial demand for autonomous cars people who don't own cars and currently must choose between bus and taxi?
- LoSboccacc 7y agocitation needed. notice how incident per mile statistic where quickly submerged by Tesla around their fourth autopilot death. also note how autopilot are currently d enabled in the less risky part of the journey. also notice how autopilot stat in most articles are compared toward national averages, which include older car with less safety features and bikes.
- JamesBarney 7y agoCitation that airplanes are safer than cars? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/14/the-safest-and-deadliest-ways-to-travel/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.31d3a07ced13 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/14/the-s... Or a citation that Tesla's auto-pilot is safer than driving? I have no idea whether they're safer than driving. My argument was about what's a sufficient goal for self-driving cars and what's needed to reach that goal. Not about whether Tesla had reached that goal.
- perl4ever 7y agoThis is an oft-expressed sentiment that seems totally and obviously wrong to me. If autonomous vehicles are safer than the average texting drunk, but much more dangerous than, say, a bus driven by a sober professional, what is the point? We could just invest in mass transit and incentivize people to use it. I mean, regardless of the drawbacks, if safety is the primary goal...