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One of the problems with trying to do this with fatalities is that fatalities are actually pretty rare per passenger/mile. Consequently, the amount of testing
by rgmerk 3y ago
One of the problems with trying to do this with fatalities is that fatalities are actually pretty rare per passenger/mile.
Consequently, the amount of testing required to prove that the fatality rate of autonomous vehicles is lower than human-driven one’s is astronomical.
Non-fatal accidents are more common but the statistics are far more rubbery.
- taeric 3y agoI'd assume that a large part of the data that makes up the "mile" portion of the passenger per mile is large trips. So, look at traffic deaths in some dense cities and you will probably find much larger numbers than you'd expect. As a quick check of this idea, looking at "vehicle passenger deaths atlanta" in a search gives numbers around 100 for many years. (And Atlanta isn't that dense, all told.)