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From a statistical, macro perspective you are correct. But from the perspective of a driver this could be a hard sell. I would say it is similar in essence to
by moocow01 14y ago
From a statistical, macro perspective you are correct. But from the perspective of a driver this could be a hard sell.
I would say it is similar in essence to air travel. Even though commercial airline travel is way safer than driving, I'm pretty sure more people fear airline travel due to the element of having no control. Unfortunately when they release probably any automated car crash, as rare as it may be, will be played up as death by machine.
I think they will have to really play up the ability to easily override the automation (even though I doubt it will mitigate automated car crashes in that once you get used to it being successful you'll probably be reading a book when the override is actually needed)
- mashmac2 14y agoWe also don't have TSA checkpoints to get through just to get in our cars...
- jfoutz 14y agoReally, it's all in the black box. Old person hits gas instead of break, crashes into robot car. What would a human do differently? teenager runs red light, gets tboned by robot car. What would a human do differently? Child runs in front of car. What would a human do differently? It might take a few years, but thousands of hours of video of humans making avoidable mistakes will probably change people's minds.
- hughw 14y agoI think they will have to really play up the ability to easily override the automation. I agree. Steamships retained masts for sails into the twentieth century, and I believe horseless carriages could still be hooked up to a team, for a while after their introduction.