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So what? This is the NHTSA job. In the future every single car accident will be investigated, like it is done with airplanes, that is the advantage of autonomo

So what? This is the NHTSA job. In the future every single car accident will be investigated, like it is done with airplanes, that is the advantage of autonomous cars, they log everything before the accident. That is what made airplanes so safe that the last accidents have been basically suicidal pilots: You investigate what creates accidents, you learn and take actions so accidents do not happen again. Rinse and repeat. Lots of the "bugs" they are going to find are not in the cars, but in the roads, like perpendicular road crossings (too common in the US), instead of roundabouts, or concrete medians with sudden changes and no visual clues.

sokoloff 5y ago
It’s pretty far from true that all airplane accidents are investigated. Airliner accidents are, but plenty of minor light aircraft accidents aren’t investigated any more deeply than minor traffic accidents are.
- kamray23 5y ago
  Not if there's no obvious fault anyway. Small planes go down often because they are usually flown VFR, by less trained pilots, or as training aircraft. For an airliner to be able to go down at all is a problem. For a small propeller-driven plane it's pretty expected, they're manual as hell, less stable, and less massive.
clifdweller 5y ago
The big choice NHTSA has to make is when to investigate and what counts as a fault of system design failure/operation failure and when that will result in a safe/unsafe recall situation. Case one car encounters situation it should be able to respond to and doesn't would need an in depth investigation whereas case 2 car encounters a new situation cant handle would need a more theoretical analysis on should car be able to handle that or is it safe to continue . i.e baby in road car should handle but they train model to ignore things like plastic cups/ plastic bags or any other "safe" road debris. but should it magically handle baby inside a plastic bag on the road. NHTSA will have to at some point make those calls on it will never be perfect but where is the line of good enough

sokoloff 5y ago

It’s pretty far from true that all airplane accidents are investigated. Airliner accidents are, but plenty of minor light aircraft accidents aren’t investigated any more deeply than minor traffic accidents are.

kamray23 5y ago
Not if there's no obvious fault anyway. Small planes go down often because they are usually flown VFR, by less trained pilots, or as training aircraft. For an airliner to be able to go down at all is a problem. For a small propeller-driven plane it's pretty expected, they're manual as hell, less stable, and less massive.

clifdweller 5y ago

The big choice NHTSA has to make is when to investigate and what counts as a fault of system design failure/operation failure and when that will result in a safe/unsafe recall situation. Case one car encounters situation it should be able to respond to and doesn't would need an in depth investigation whereas case 2 car encounters a new situation cant handle would need a more theoretical analysis on should car be able to handle that or is it safe to continue . i.e baby in road car should handle but they train model to ignore things like plastic cups/ plastic bags or any other "safe" road debris. but should it magically handle baby inside a plastic bag on the road. NHTSA will have to at some point make those calls on it will never be perfect but where is the line of good enough