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A person will be in a crash every 15 years or so. At 10,000 miles per year, that's about 150,000 miles per crash. Six months ago Google said they've logged 70
by danielweber 12y ago
A person will be in a crash every 15 years or so. At 10,000 miles per year, that's about 150,000 miles per crash.
Six months ago Google said they've logged 700,000 miles, with 0 accidents.
The failure mode for the self-driving car isn't that you crash into a tree. It's that there are newspapers blowing across the road and it says "nope, not going anywhere" and you sit and wait.
- snowwrestler 12y agoThe linked article details several failures that would be real accidents on an actual street. Google's cars are just one, very carefully controlled, experiment in self-driving cars.