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I worry there's going to be a "the perfect is the enemy of the good" problem with self-driving. There will reach a point, likely soon, where on a damage per mi
by hakfoo 4y ago
I worry there's going to be a "the perfect is the enemy of the good" problem with self-driving.
There will reach a point, likely soon, where on a damage per million kilometres level, a self-driver is safer than an average human, and eventually a good human driver. But I worry it will take years and years extra to get self-driving legally approved, because people will hang up on the corner cases where the best human drivers under ideal circumstances could avoid an incident the self-driver fails.
I sort of hope the insurance industry will take the vanguard here, because they can see the "claims per million kilometres" number and get less hung up on the "my specific individual experience was bad" anecdata.