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I hear you but being slightly better than humans isn't going to cut it. Every accident that happens opens up the self driving company to massive liability. If

I hear you but being slightly better than humans isn't going to cut it. Every accident that happens opens up the self driving company to massive liability. If I'm a bad driver and hit you, you can sue me for a few thousand dollars. If Google is a bad driver and hits you, you could sue them for tens of millions of dollars. If we made all cars self driving and they killed 30,000 per year instead of 40,000, the story becomes "Tesla and Google" murder 30,000 Americans every year. I don't think these companies could survive that amount of bad PR and legal liability. And yes, I get that self driving cars have safety network effects, but they need to be at least 1 order of magnitude safer, if not more BEFORE those network effects start to compound.

stocknoob 3y ago
How often do transportation companies get sued in general? If the accident rate is the same as a bus, train, or airplane, why would this be different?
- nabakin 3y ago
  It's because buses are controlled by people, not a computer made by the transportation company. If the transportation company wrote a program to control buses and it was responsible for an accident, the company would be at fault, but there is no transportation company which uses a program to drive buses so ofc this wouldn't apply. If the cause of the crash is the program, it's the company's fault. If the cause of the crash is a person, it's the person's fault. It's not that complicated.