School bus drivers are safer than airline pilots per exposure hour, in fact they are safer than walking. The big problem with driver assistance products is the

School bus drivers are safer than airline pilots per exposure hour, in fact they are safer than walking. The big problem with driver assistance products is the automation bias issue with human drivers. Mixed in with humans being really bad at maintaining attention while bored. We see this even with highly trained airline pilots with backup crashing due to automation bias. Despite the common myth, drunk drivers have higher fatality rates than those who are hit. Selling driver assistance as self driving or allowing it to be used without serious attention detection safeguards won't make distracted or impaired drivers safer. I'm fact for first responders, highway workers and pedestrians, any form of driver assistance that allows drivers to checkout of the driving task, they will be far less safe. The only way that these companies claim that there systems are safer today is the they disengage quick enough to claim they weren't at fault but without time for the distracted drivers to respond. By ignoring automation bias, which is a well known human flaw, they pad their numbers and make them seem safer, while not having enough data to even make statistical claims that they do. Outside of naive beliefs that autonomous cars are safe driving confirmation bias the common myth that self driving cars are safer is baseless. I get that is the goal, but assuming it is true without evidence is part of the reason the public is starting to doubt the claims.