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But one of the points of self-driving cars is to remove those bad drivers from the driving seat.
by darkwater 3y ago
But one of the points of self-driving cars is to remove those bad drivers from the driving seat.
- littlestymaar 3y agoMaybe in theory, but then you have a bigger social/psychological/economic problem because these populations are necessarily the ones that are going to be compatible with the business model for autonomous cars. And if you get a bigger proportion of “good drivers” in autonomous cars than there is in the overall population, you're on fact increasing the overall number of accidents.
- darkwater 3y agoI agree that a very probable outcome is that the real bad drivers will, for one reason or another, keep using non-self-driving cars way longer than good drivers. But also a good self-driving car should have faster reflexes than a good human driver, so it might mitigate anyway the damage done by a drunken driver.
- kaba0 3y agoHow? There will be multiple decades of self-driving — human driver co-existence. I’m not convinced that this phase would be safer than the human-only one, as AI might very well handle bad human drivers much worse (as it is an edge case).
- xorcist 3y agoI have never once heard self-driving cars sold with the argument "they're great for sleep deprived and alcoholics". Maybe they should be.
- willvarfar 3y agoI have always wanted a self-driving car so there's no more "designated driver" hassle with going out.
- cm2187 3y agoSame, there are few places I go to I may not come back drunk! This, and freeing up the streets from parked cars. If cars are self driving they can go park themselves into some big, far away car parks instead of clogging the streets. In europe it can easily multiply by 2 or 3 the throughput of most big cities.
- lupusreal 3y ago"Going out" is synonymous with drinking? You could just... not drink.
- willvarfar 3y agoThere's a cultural dimension. In general south europe culture it is normal to drink wine to food, and enjoy it, but also embarrassing to get publically drunk. Whereas in northern europe, though, it's all beer or spirits and the aim is to get as drunk as possible as quickly as possible. These generalisations are based on my own observations. There's doubtless a lot of variation.