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Automatic cars need to be better drivers than us, not just good enough, as another thing.

• lamontcg 4y ago
  If they were as good as the average sober and undistracted human they'd probably be a massive improvement. But yeah, they need to hit the highest bar possible. As we've seen with vaccines anything developed by humans has to be nearly perfect, while a "natural" massive clusterfuck with 40,000 deaths per year won't count for anything by comparison.
  • LarryMullins 4y ago
    > If they were as good as the average sober and undistracted human they'd probably be a massive improvement. How do you convince the better half of drivers that they should use a system that is worse than themselves, personally?
    • lamontcg 4y ago
      If you had a system that drove roughly as well as I do at my 90% best and cut out the worst 10% of my driving, and let me not have to deal with the road that'd be fine for me. And I probably should have said "sober, undistracted and competent human" since some people just shouldn't drive, and some people shouldn't be driving under certain conditions (which may not be tired or drunk, but going through a rough break up with late night emotional blowups).