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>Fatalities are the metric Waymo uses every time they give a presentation. Source? Because since 2020 Waymo has been primarily touting their "contact events"
by bduerst 5y ago
>Fatalities are the metric Waymo uses every time they give a presentation.
Source? Because since 2020 Waymo has been primarily touting their "contact events" metric, which is what most people consider to be accidents.
Simulated miles are still better than no miles. Given the better accident rate it seems to contribute to a degree.
The point is that it's an argument from ignorance to narrowly focus on one metric and say we don't have enough information on whether autonomous vehicles are safe. We do have a range of metrics and information already that point to them being safer.
- notahacker 5y ago> Simulated miles are still better than no miles. Provided your starting point is AV software with some ability to drive, this isn't necessarily true. Tuning on simulated miles can lead towards over-optimization for the conditions of the simulation.
- modeless 5y agohttps://youtu.be/qJiFKxvJlhY?t=66 https://youtu.be/qJiFKxvJlhY?t=66 https://youtu.be/gW6Wt2WQotY?t=232 https://youtu.be/gW6Wt2WQotY?t=232 https://youtu.be/o8rCOKSDMcg?t=60 https://youtu.be/o8rCOKSDMcg?t=60 There are countless other examples. It's one of the first things they bring up in almost every presentation to the general public. It's how they present themselves to the world, as the answer to traffic fatalities. You may think it "ignorant" but the fact is that fatalities are going to be the single most important metric that the public and journalists and governments are going to focus on, and that's why it matters. The first few driverless car fatalities are going to be a huge, huge deal and are likely to result in action from all three branches of government. There will be court cases, there will be regulatory action, and there will be a lot of noise from politicians about laws and maybe even some laws passed about it. The first one already forced Uber out of the game.