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Accidents are usually caused by human unpredictability, lack of attention, terrible reaction time, stupidity, narrow perception, inability to follow traffic rul
by agildehaus 12y ago
Accidents are usually caused by human unpredictability, lack of attention, terrible reaction time, stupidity, narrow perception, inability to follow traffic rules, and the effects of various drugs. Driverless cars mitigate all of these issues.
I would feel much better riding a bike in the vicinity of a self-driving vehicle than any random human.
There are a number of issues to iron out yet and a lot of testing to do. But make no mistake, they're already far better.
- robotresearcher 12y agoThey are currently stumped by situations that humans are OK in. They are not "already far better" in all situations. Even if they are better on average, my point is that this is not enough. If the world was run on pure rationality, they would have only to be epsilon better on average to be adopted. In the actual world, they are going to need to be very much better, and have very very few failure cases to be adopted.