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Is 5x safer a realistic goal? There are limits to how safe a car can be on a road full of human drivers, no matter what sensor suite it has and how fast its rea
by Causality1 6y ago
Is 5x safer a realistic goal? There are limits to how safe a car can be on a road full of human drivers, no matter what sensor suite it has and how fast its reactions are. A vehicle can only respond so quickly to control inputs. Making a computer that's five times as safe as a human might be a thousand times more difficult than making one twice as safe.
- sliken 6y agoDepends how you count. Being is 5x less accidents might be unreasonably hard. But causing 5x less accidents seems reasonable, especially since most humans are that safe. I don't have the stats, but I believe the worst 20% of drivers cause a large fraction of the accidents. That 20% often includes the uninsured, the unlicensed, the drunk, high, emotionally distressed, and the physically compromised (senile, low blood sugar, tired, etc)
- Causality1 6y agoThat's true but beside the point. The moment autonomous cars become better than the median human driver, keeping them off the road starts costing lives every day.