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Driving is not dangerous. Millions of people drive hundreds of millions of miles a day in the US, and the number of deaths is a statistical blip.
by erobbins 7y ago
Driving is not dangerous. Millions of people drive hundreds of millions of miles a day in the US, and the number of deaths is a statistical blip.
- kalenx 7y agoThen, by this reasoning, autonomous driving is not dangerous either.
- erobbins 7y agoIt's more dangerous, and I trust distributed systems (humans) more than a monolith (waymo). Sure, an individual human may from time to time screw up, but there aren't any defects present in every single person just waiting for the right edge case to appear.
- jefftk 7y agoThere definitely are! Consider blind spots / limited field of view, slow reflexes, and tendencies towards distracted driving. AVs certainly have bugs, and some may lead to accidents and even deaths, but each one will be examined in an enormous amount of detail to figure out what sort of edge case it was and prevent similar ones from happening.
- _delirium 7y agoIt's a pretty big blip! About 2.2 million people a year are injured in automobile accidents in the U.S., and around 35,000 are killed. Granted, you're still much more likely to die of heart disease. But if we're going to care about any non-disease causes of death or injury at all, automobile accidents are near the top of the ones to worry about. It's a much bigger cause of both deaths and injuries than violent crime is, for example.