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Many (most?) accidents are due to a clearly in the wrong driver (drunk-driving, texting, etc), and the other parties have no way of avoiding that. How exactly w
by kaba0 4y ago
Many (most?) accidents are due to a clearly in the wrong driver (drunk-driving, texting, etc), and the other parties have no way of avoiding that. How exactly would a few self-driving cars help here? They can’t prevent a collision when the other party goes over a red light at some insane speed. They could start breaking sooner, which is great, but that doesn’t need self driving, it is a feature of plenty of cars already.
Of course if every car would be self driving we wouldn’t have crazy drivers, and accidents would diminish, but so would if we simply didn’t have crazy drivers. Neither is feasible in the near future, and in the short term, humans are much better at handling tricky situations (like.. not emergency braking at the sight of a plastic bag in the air)