Put into scale, there were 1.11 deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven in the United States in 2019. The average human is actually surprisingly good at driving car

Put into scale, there were 1.11 deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven in the United States in 2019. The average human is actually surprisingly good at driving cars, we just drive 3.9 trillion miles per year so the absolute numbers of fatalities are enormous. I say this as a person who genuinely feels like people are generally terrible at driving. Should we improve these numbers? Of course. But AI-driven cars will have to beat a pretty high floor of capability here. It's entirely possible they're already there but it's difficult to know for sure given the biased way the numbers are calculated. The manufacturers claim that their systems are much safer drivers than humans, but those systems also hand control back to the human driver during difficult or unpredictable situations. It's easy for the statistics to swing in AI's favor when they only have to count the "easy" majority of miles while shifting blame back to humans for the hard parts.