I’d be in favor of self-driving cars by the same criteria, but sadly a lot of people are ready to skip that step. Let’s be clear, there is ZERO empirical evide

I’d be in favor of self-driving cars by the same criteria, but sadly a lot of people are ready to skip that step. Let’s be clear, there is ZERO empirical evidence that self-driving car technologies available to humanity today are safer than human drivers. Zero. There are lots of theoretical advantages like “computers don’t get sleepy or drunk,” which elide the many other ways that computers still dramatically underperform people (like recognizing objects).