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But if AI can be better than humans at driving a car, then it can also be better than you at driving a bicycle. Will you accept AI-augmented tools on your bike

But if AI can be better than humans at driving a car, then it can also be better than you at driving a bicycle. Will you accept AI-augmented tools on your bike? I see automatic braking and speed limiters as very easy first steps. Then geofencing to prevent bicycles on pedestrian paths. All of that is dead simple with curret tech.

pasabagi 4y ago
Bicyles aren't very dangerous. Cars, on the other hand, are a leading cause of death in basically every country on earth.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  Yeah, you only have a ~seven times higher rate of death per mile traveled as compared to a car. It’s just there are significantly more car miles traveled so more car related deaths. statistics…
  - pasabagi 4y ago
    ... 'death rate', as in, the cyclist is killed by a car.
- sandworm101 4y ago
  Check your stats. In most of the largest countries (India, China, Russia etc) buses are actually more dangerous than cars. One bus crash can be more dangerous than dozens of car crashes. And my phone just had a weather alert. -35c tomorrow, possible -50c with wind chill. I'm sure I'll see not a single bicycle ... but definitely a few snow mobiles. They are ridiculously dangerous and polluting, but at least they aren't cars.
  - pasabagi 4y ago
    I would imagine that a very large portion of all deadly crashes (buses included) involve a car. Cars are pretty safe for their drivers; they are just very dangerous for everybody else. So, if you split 'passenger deaths' by 'vehicle category' you're going to have a lot of situations where a car hits a bus/cyclist/pedestrian, the driver survives, and whoever they hit does not. This creates misleading statistics.