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> a self driving vehicle should be a monotonous improvement on non-self driving. In other words, all situations that are currently handled by regular drivers sh
by snowwrestler 7y ago
> a self driving vehicle should be a monotonous improvement on non-self driving. In other words, all situations that are currently handled by regular drivers should be handled just as well or better for self driving to be socially acceptable.
I agree with this but I think it implies that people also will not accept safe self-driving cars that take forever to get anywhere in traffic. Especially since a decline in average traffic throughput makes things worse for everyone in a car, self-driving or not.
I think this makes the problem much harder, since a lot of people do demonstrably take risks in their driving now, in the interest of saving time (even knowing intellectually that lives are on the line).
- Piskvorrr 7y agoOr, in the more optimistic case, SDV will come to areas where top speed is not a priority - think "bulk cargo".
- henrikschroder 7y agoYeah, the place where self-driving will make the biggest impact first, is for long-haul truck driving.
- sokoloff 7y agoIf you slowed everyone’s traffic by 25%, how many human lives are wasted (though not ended) per year? If you assume people drive 10K per year at an average speed of 33 mph, you’re driving ~300 hours per year. Slow that by 25% and it’s an extra 100 hours per year. If you assume 7.5 hours of sleep, you’d spend an extra 1.6% of your waking life in a car because of the slowdown. That’s killing a lot of time, even if not directly killing people.