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> Human beings are tremendously better at driving than machines Human drivers: 1 death per 88 million miles traveled (in the US) [1] Tesla Autopilot: 5 deaths
by bufferoverflow 6y ago
> Human beings are tremendously better at driving than machines
Human drivers: 1 death per 88 million miles traveled (in the US) [1]
Tesla Autopilot: 5 deaths per 3 billion miles [2]
[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...
[2] https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billion-miles/ https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...
- shaklee3 6y agoAutopilot isn't used in the same conditions.
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- imtringued 6y agoTesla autopilot is just a very fancy form of cruise control. Without corrections by human drivers it will happily run into stationary obstacles.
- legolas2412 6y agoYeah. Totally makes sense to compare a human driver driving an average 7 year old 30k$ car with not so good safety ratings driven by average person in snowy, rainy pothole ridden roads to a newish 70k$ luxury car with good airbags/crumple zones driven in mostly sunny California roads by mostly young drivers with a driver assistance system. And then for you to argue that the driver assistance system is actually better than a human driver if given the car alone! Wow